Marginal and relevant deformations of N=4 field theories and non-commutative moduli spaces of vacua

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 589, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 196-248

  Berenstein, David ^a   Jejjala, Vishnu ^a   Leigh, Robert G ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT; D branes; K theory; Non commutative geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001151714     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00394-1     Document Type: Article

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