An M-theory flop as a large N duality

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3209-3220

  Atiyah, Michael ^a   Maldacena, Juan ^b,c   Vafa, Cumrun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

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EID: 0035534464     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1376159     Document Type: Article

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