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Cumrun Vafa

Urs Schreiber
Cumrun Vafa is a string theorist at Harvard. On the action of the modular group on spin structures over closed surfaces in relation to theta functions and string amplitudes: Introducing what came to be called the Brandenberger-Vafa mechanism in string theoretic cosmology: On the quantum cohomology induced by supersymmetric sigma-models: Sergio Cecotti, Cumrun Vafa, Exact Results for Supersymmetric Sigma Models, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (1992) 903-906 [arXiv:hep-th/9111016,...