Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and Riemannian geometry

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 517, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 462-484

  Schiappa, Ricardo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gauge invariance; Gauss' law; Geometric variables; Supersymmetric Yang Mills theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032571639     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00013-3     Document Type: Article

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