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Open String Diagrams I: Topological Type

Subhashis Nag, Parameswaran Sankaran

alg-geomarXiv:alg-geom/9208001

Abstract

An arbitrary Feynman graph for string field theory interactions is analysed and the homeomorphism type of the corresponding world sheet surface is completely determined even in the non-orientable cases. Algorithms are found to mechanically compute the topological characteristics of the resulting surface from the structure of the signed oriented graph. Whitney's permutation-theoretic coding of graphs is utilized.

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