The large N limit of N = 2, 1 field theories from threebranes in F-theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 1998, Issue 7, 1998, Pages

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Fayyazuddin, Ansar ^b   Maldacena, Juan ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; D branes; Duality in Gauge Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242343713     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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