The topological cigar observables

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Ashok, Sujay K ^a   Troost, Jan ^b  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

BRST Symmetry; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748308801     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/08/067     Document Type: Article

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