On the Coulomb branch of a marginal deformation of N = 4 SUSY Yang-Mills

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 6, 2005, Pages 809-850

  Dorey, Nick ^a   Hollowood, Timothy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duality; Supersymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144482387     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/06/036     Document Type: Article

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