N = 1* in 5 dimensions: Dijkgraaf-Vafa meets Polchinski-Strassler

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1-23

  Bena, Iosif ^a   Roiban, Radu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; D branes; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144447288     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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