Worldsheet
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Worldsheet
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In string theory, a worldsheet is a two-dimensional manifold which describes the embedding of a string in spacetime. The term was coined by Leonard Susskind as a direct generalization of the world line concept for a point particle in special and general relativity. The type of string, the geometry of the spacetime in which it propagates, and the presence of long-range background fields are encoded in a two-dimensional conformal field theory defined on the worldsheet. For example, the bosonic str
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Mathematical concept
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldsheet
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2024-01-05T18:17:45Z
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