Effective superpotentials for B-branes in Landau-Ginzburg models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Govindarajan, Suresh ^a,b,c   Jockers, Hans ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

D branes; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846124285     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/10/060     Document Type: Review

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