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Use for questions about mirror symmetry in theoretical/mathematical physics.

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What are "branes", and why do they form a category?

Let me start by putting your questions into a bit more context. Kapustin and Witten's story occurs within string theory, a theory of 1-dimensional extended objects. Strings may be "closed," forming lo …
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