Holography and the Higgs branch of N=2 SYM theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1461-1489

  Guralnik, Zachary ^a   Kovacs, Stefano ^b   Kulik, Bogdan ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ads CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; D branes; Superspaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144453912     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/063     Document Type: Article

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