Black hole entropy and topological strings on generalized CY manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Pestun, Vasily ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Black Holes in String Theory; Differential and Algebraic Geometry; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749379003     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/09/034     Document Type: Article

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