Instantons on noncommutative ℝ4, and (2, 0) superconformal six dimensional theory

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 689-703

  Nekrasov, Nikita ^a,b   Schwarz, Albert ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001539532     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002200050490     Document Type: Article

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