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A Frobenius manifold is a complex manifold with a multiplication and a metric on the holomorphic tangent bundle and two distinguished vector fields, satisfying a series of natural conditions.
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Hertling, C. (2001). Frobenius manifolds and variance of the spectral numbers. In: Siersma, D., Wall, C.T.C., Zakalyukin, V. (eds) New Developments in Singularity Theory. NATO Science Series, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0834-1_10
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