Conformal topological Yang-Mills theory and de Sitter holography

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1183-1213

  De Medeiros, Paul ^a   Hull, Christopher ^a   Spence, Bill ^a   Figueroa O'Farrill, José ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Topological Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242387159     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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