New curves from branes

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 516, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 273-296

  Landsteiner, Karl ^b   Lopez, Esperanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Branes; Duality; Supersymmetric gauge theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010133649     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00022-4     Document Type: Article

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