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Showing papers on "Topological string theory published in 1979"


Journal ArticleDOI
D. Foerster1
TL;DR: An examination of the Schwinger - Dyson equations of U(n) lattice Yang-Mills theory as mentioned in this paper shows that this theory is exactly equivalent to a theory of strings that interact with one another only through their topology.

75 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The manner by which topological symmetry breakdown leads to confinement in a non-Abelian gauge theory is discussed in this article, where the authors show that the symmetry breakdown can lead to confinement.

37 citations