Liouville field, modular forms and elliptic genera

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Eguchi, Tohru ^a   Sugawara, Yuji ^b   Taormina, Anne ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformal and w symmetry; Conformal field models in string theory; Superstring vacua; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149283001     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/119     Document Type: Article

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