Quantum foam and topological strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Iqbal, Amer ^a   Vafa, Cumrun ^a   Nekrasov, Nikita ^b,d   Okounkov, Andrei ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Supersymmetric gauge theory; Topological strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449118856     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/011     Document Type: Article

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