Fivebrane instantons, topological wave functions and hypermultiplet moduli spaces

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Alexandrov, Sergei ^a   Persson, Daniel ^b   Pioline, Boris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER II   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

Discrete and finite symmetries; Nonperturbative effects; String duality; Topological strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053092811     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)111     Document Type: Article

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