Instanton strings and hyper-Kähler geometry

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 543, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 545-571

  Dijkgraaf, Robbert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0033614214     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00869-4     Document Type: Article

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