Topological strings and Nekrasov's formulas

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 159-188

  Eguchi, Tohru ^a   Kanno, Hiroaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry; String Duality; Topological Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444442448     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/12/006     Document Type: Article

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