The topological B-model on fattened complex manifolds and subsectors of N = 4 self-dual Yang-Mills theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2005, Pages 967-993

  Sämann, Christian ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chem Simons Theories; Integrable Field Theories; Superspaces; Tbpological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344460269     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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