Cohomological reduction of sigma models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Candu, Constantin ^a   Creutzig, Thomas ^b   Mitev, Vladimir ^a   Schomerus, Volker ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Global symmetries; Sigma models; Superspaces; Topological field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954998864     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)047     Document Type: Article

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