The renormalization group equation in N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 494, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 89-104

  D'Hoker, Eric ^a   Krichever, I M ^b,c   Phong, D H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective prepotential; Instantons; Modular forms; Renormalization group; Seiberg Witten theory; function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031560871     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00156-9     Document Type: Article

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