SL(2; ℝ) /U(1) supercoset and elliptic genera of Non-compact Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 281-318

  Eguchi, Tohru ^a   Sugawara, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Black Holes in String Theory; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044434890     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/014     Document Type: Article

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