Introduction to S-duality in N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories: A pedagogical review of the work of Seiberg and Witten

Fortschritte der Physik

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 159-236

  Alvarez Gaumé, Luis ^a   Hassan, S F ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

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