Boundary Conformal Field Theory and Ribbon Graphs: a tool for open/closed string dualities

Abstract

We construct and fully characterize a scalar boundary conformal field theory on a triangulated Riemann surface. The results are analyzed from a string theory perspective as tools to deal with open/closed string dualities.

40 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected

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