Branes, superpotentials and superconformal fixed points

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 504, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 239-271

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Hanany, Amihay ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane constructions; Superconformal field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031588283     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00472-0     Document Type: Article

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