Chiral rings and anomalies in supersymmetric gauge theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1611-1666

  Cachazo, Freddy ^a   Douglas, Michael R ^b,c   Seiberg, Nathan ^a   Witten, Edward ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Supersymmetric Effective Theories; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044436654     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/12/071     Document Type: Article

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