Periodic monopoles with singularities and N = 2 super-QCD

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-35

  Cherkis, Sergey A ^a   Kapustin, Anton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

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EID: 0037346860     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-002-0786-0     Document Type: Article

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