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In this note, we study the deformation of the topological string by $barOmega$. Namely, adopting the perturbative string amplitudes approach, we identify the $barOmega$-deformation in terms of a physical state in the sting spectrum. We calculate the topological amplitudes $F_g$ in heterotic string theory in the presence of the latter. In particular, we show that it is crucial to include quadratic terms in the effective action in order for $barOmega$ to decouple. It turns out that this decoupling happens at the full string level, suggesting that this holds non-perturbatively.
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