Gravitational corrections in supersymmetric gauge theory and matrix models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1091-1113

  Klemm, Albrecht ^a   Mariño, Marcos ^b   Theisen, Stefan ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Matrix Models; String Duality; Supersymmetric Effective Theories; Topological Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044436751     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/03/051     Document Type: Article

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