Deformations of topological open strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Hofman, Christiaan ^a   Ma, Whee Ky ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chern Simons Theories; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Topological Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744871747     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/035     Document Type: Article

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