Hidden Symmetry in Topological Gravity
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Talk presented by P.N. at “Mathematics and Physics of Strings,” Berkeley and “Topology and Geometry in Theoretical Physics,” Turku (Finland), 1991. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics This conference paper is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/physics_papers/537
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