Frobenius manifolds and Virasoro constraints

Selecta Mathematica, New Series

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 423-466

  Dubrovin, Boris ^a   Zhang, Youjin ^b,c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frobenius manifold; Symmetry; Virasoro constraint

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000485488     PISSN: 10221824     EISSN: 14209020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000290050053     Document Type: Article

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