Brane box realization of chiral gauge theories in two dimensions

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 539, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 329-366

  García Compeán, Hugo ^a,b   Uranga, Angel M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b Departamento de Física   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Brane configurations; Supersymmetric gauge theories; Two dimensional field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033601640     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00725-1     Document Type: Article

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