Open strings and their symmetry groups

Abstract

Much of the recent progress in String Theory can be traced to a precise strategy: a careful study of the few models known since the beginnings of the subject, and the abstraction from them of basic properties that one would like to demand from other models. This could be termed a set of "model-building rules". The approach corresponds to the fact, often a source of embarrassment to specialists, that String Theory, born as a set of rules rather than as a set of principles, has long resisted attempts to reduce it to a logically satisfying structure. Talk presented at the Cargese Summer Institute on Non-Perturbative Methods in Field Theory, Cargese, France, July 16-30, 1987.

Latex, 12 pages, 2 eps figures. Talk presented at the Cargese Summer Institute on Non-Perturbative Methods in Field Theory, Cargese, France, July 16-30, 1987

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