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В. R. Greene, C. Vafa, N. P. Warner, “Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Renormalization Group Flows,” Nuclear Physics В 324 (1989): 371–390.
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Brian Greene (Columbia University), interview with author, March 11,2010.
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Doron Gepner, interview with author, August 19, 2008.
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B. R. Greene and M. R. Plesser, “Duality in Calabi-Yau Moduli Space,” Nuclear Physics В 338 (1990): 15–37.
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Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), p. 258.
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Plesser, interview with author, September 19, 2008.
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Greene, interview with author, March 11, 2010.
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Greene, The Elegant Universe, p. 259.
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Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), interview with author, September 19, 2008.
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Greene, interview with author, March 13, 2010.
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Mark Gross (UCSD), interview with author, October 31, 2008.
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Andreas Gathmann (University of Kaiserslautern), interview with author, August 25, 2008.
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