Chern-Simons theory and topological strings

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 675-720

  Mariño, Marcos ^a,b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPOLOGY;

CHERN-SIMONS GAUGE THEORY; COUPLING CONSTANT; KNOT THEORY; STRING THEORY;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 27144547045     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.77.675     Document Type: Article

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