Vortex Counting and Lagrangian 3-Manifolds

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 225-287

  Dimofte, Tudor ^a   Gukov, Sergei ^a,b   Hollands, Lotte ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BPS invariants; conformal field theory; D branes; gauge theory; vortex equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855139588     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-011-0531-8     Document Type: Article

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