Amoebas and instantons

International Journal of Modern Physics A

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 937-983

  Maeda, Takashi ^a   Nakatsu, Toshio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amoeba; Five dimensional SUSY gauge theory; Local Calabi Yau geometry; Random plane partitions; Ronkin's function; Superstring; Tropical geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847794103     PISSN: 0217751X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X07034970     Document Type: Article

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