Branes and N = 2 theories in two dimensions

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 513, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 119-174

  Hanany, Amihay ^a   Hori, Kentaro ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

BPS solitons; Fivebrane; Level rank duality; M theory; Membrane; Supersymmetric gauge theories in two dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032473044     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00754-2     Document Type: Article

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