7 citations · 8 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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hep-th2007★ 1 cited
An Action For Chan-Paton Factors
Florian Payen
We show that Chan-Paton factors can be derived from a classical action describing the dynamics of a new group-valued degree of freedom attached to the boundary of an open bosonic s…
hep-th2006★ 7 cited
Topological Background Fields as Quantum Degrees of Freedom of Compactified Strings
Jan Govaerts, Florian Payen
It is shown that background fields of a topological character usually introduced as such in compactified string theories correspond to quantum degrees of freedom which parametrise…