Summing the instantons in half-twisted linear sigma models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  McOrist, Jock ^a   Melnikov, Ilarion V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Superstrings and heterotic strings; Topological field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649553258     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/02/026     Document Type: Article

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