Pure spinor formalism as an N ≤ 2 topological string

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2157-2185

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544469745     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/089     Document Type: Article

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