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An Introduction to the Web-Based Formalism
Davide Gaiotto1; Gregory W. Moore2; Edward Witten3
1 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; 31 Caroline Street North; ON N2L 2Y5; Canada
2 NHETC and Department of Physics and Astronomy; Rutgers University; Piscataway, NJ 08855–0849; USA
3 School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study; Princeton, NJ 08540; USA
Confluentes Mathematici, Volume 9 (2017) no. 2, pp. 5-48.

This paper summarizes our rather lengthy paper, “Algebra of the Infrared: String Field Theoretic Structures in Massive 𝒩=(2,2) Field Theory In Two Dimensions,” and is meant to be an informal, yet detailed, introduction and summary of that larger work.

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DOI: 10.5802/cml.40
Classification: 37K40, 53D37, 81T30, 81T40, 81Q60
Keywords: Fukaya-Seidel category, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, two-dimensional field theory, soliton, wall-crossing

Davide Gaiotto 1; Gregory W. Moore 2; Edward Witten 3

1 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; 31 Caroline Street North; ON N2L 2Y5; Canada
2 NHETC and Department of Physics and Astronomy; Rutgers University; Piscataway, NJ 08855–0849; USA
3 School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study; Princeton, NJ 08540; USA
License: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Davide Gaiotto; Gregory W. Moore; Edward Witten. An Introduction to the Web-Based Formalism. Confluentes Mathematici, Volume 9 (2017) no. 2, pp. 5-48. doi : 10.5802/cml.40. https://cml.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/cml.40/

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