Topological string amplitudes, complete intersection Calabi-Yau spaces and threshold corrections

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 484-599

  Klemm, Albrecht ^a   Kreuzer, Maximilian ^b   Riegler, Erwin ^b   Scheidegger, Emanuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

String Duality; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444444416     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/023     Document Type: Article

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