Symplectic surgery and Gromov-Witten invariants of Calabi-Yau 3-folds

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 151-218

  Li, An Min ^a   Ruan, Yongbin ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 0035632912     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220100146     Document Type: Article

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