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Selected writings

On supergravity with higher curvature corrections and the Starobinsky model of cosmic inflation:

• Sergio Cecotti, Higher derivative supergravity is equivalent to standard supergravity coupled to matter, Phys. Lett. B 190 86 (1987) [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(87)90844-6]

On the quantum cohomology induced by supersymmetric $\mathbb{C}P^N$ sigma-models:

• Sergio Cecotti, Cumrun Vafa, Exact Results for Supersymmetric Sigma Models, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (1992) 903-906 [arXiv:hep-th/9111016, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.903]

• Sergio Cecotti, Cumrun Vafa, On Classification of $N=2$ Supersymmetric Theories, Comm. Math. Phys. 158 (1993) 569-644 [arXiv:hep-th/9211097, doi:10.1007/BF02096804]

On how the second quantization of the B-model yields Kodeira-Spencer gravity/BCOV theory:

• Michael Bershadsky, Sergio Cecotti, Hirosi Ooguri, Cumrun Vafa, Kodaira-Spencer Theory of Gravity and Exact Results for Quantum String Amplitudes, Commun. Math. Phys. 165 (1994) 311-428 [arXiv:hep-th/9309140, doi:10.1007/BF02099774]

On wall crossing and topological string theory:

• Sergio Cecotti, Cumrun Vafa, BPS wall crossing and topological strings [arXiv/0910.2615]

• Sergio Cecotti, Trieste lectures on wall-crossing invariants (2010) [pdf&rbrack

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