Kontsevich-Witten model from 2 + 1 gravity: New exact combinatorial solution

Journal of Geometry and Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-91

  Kholodenko, A ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical systems; Enumerative combinatorics; Grassmannians; Gravity; Schubert calculus; Surface automorphisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036271540     PISSN: 03930440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0393-0440(02)00003-7     Document Type: Article

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