Superconformal partition functions and non-perturbative topological strings

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2018)051zbMath1402.81248arXiv1210.5909OpenAlexW2147047541WikidataQ129126925 ScholiaQ129126925MaRDI QIDQ1627294

Cumrun Vafa, Guglielmo Lockhart

Publication date: 22 November 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5909

zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetric gauge theoryfield theories in higher dimensionstopological strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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