Branes, black holes and topological strings on toric Calabi-Yau manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Aganagic, Mina ^a   Jafferis, Daniel ^b   Saulina, Natalia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Holes in String Theory; p branes; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846151394     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/018     Document Type: Review

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