Topological amplitudes in heterotic strings with Wilson lines

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Weiss, Marlene ^a,b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

String duality; Superstrings and heterotic strings; Topological strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953275835     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/024     Document Type: Article

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