Curves of marginal stability, and weak-and strong-coupling BPS spectra in N = 2 supersymmetric QCD

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 480, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 589-619

  Bilal, Adel ^a,b   Ferrari, Frank ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duality; Non perturbative BPS spectrum; Strong coupling; Supersymmetric Yang Mills

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030566767     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00480-4     Document Type: Article

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