Instanton counting, Macdonald function and the moduli space of D-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1143-1168

  Awata, Hidetoshi ^a   Kanno, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

D branes; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Topological Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444437243     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/039     Document Type: Article

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