Virasoro constraints for Kontsevich-Hurwitz partition function

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Mironov, A ^a,b   Morozov, A ^b  

^a LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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

Author keywords

Matrix models; Topological field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649553259     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/02/024     Document Type: Article

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