D-instantons and twistors

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Alexandrov, Sergei ^a   Pioline, Boris ^b   Saueressig, Frank ^c   Vandoren, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER II   (France)

^b LPTHE   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Black holes in string theory; Differential and algebraic geometry; String duality; Topological strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649556221     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/044     Document Type: Article

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