Towards integrability of topological strings I: Three-forms on Calabi-Yau manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1781-1806

  Gerasimov, Anton A ^a,b   Shatashvili, Samson L ^b,c  

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

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Models of Quantum Gravity; Space Time Symmetries; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444442270     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/074     Document Type: Article

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