Superconformal field theory on threebranes at a Calabi-Yau singularity

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 536, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 199-218

  Klebanov, Igor R ^a   Witten, Edward ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti deSitter space; Conical singularities; Infrared fixed points; String theory; Supersymmetric Yang Mills theory; Threebranes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032556626     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00654-3     Document Type: Article

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