Conifold type singularities, N = 2 Liouville and SL(2; ℝ)/U(1) theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2005, Pages 555-604

  Eguchi, Tohru ^a   Sugawara, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844543214     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/01/027     Document Type: Article

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