Topological strings and integrable hierarchies

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 451-516

  Aganagic, Mina ^a   Dijkgraaf, Robbert ^b   Klemm, Albrecht ^c   Mariño, Marcos ^d   Vafa, Cumrun ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 28144452143     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-005-1448-9     Document Type: Article

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