An infinite family of superconformal quiver gauge theories with Sasaki-Einstein duals

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1451-1475

  Benvenuti, Sergio ^a,b   Franco, Sebastián ^c   Hanany, Amihay ^c   Martelli, Dario ^d   Sparks, James ^e,f  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Conformal Field Models in String Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144435586     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/06/064     Document Type: Article

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