Issues in topological gauge theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 534, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 549-611

  Losev, A ^a,c   Nekrasov, N ^a,b   Shatashvili, S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

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EID: 0032583041     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00628-2     Document Type: Article

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