Chern-Simons and twisted supersymmetry in various dimensions

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 522, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 82-104

  Baulieu, Laurent ^a   Losev, Andrei ^a,b,c   Nekrasov, Nikita ^a,b,d  

^a LPTHE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Index theorems; Instanton equations; Quantum moduli spaces; Supersymmetric theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032577795     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00096-0     Document Type: Article

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