Topological disorder operators in three-dimensional conformal field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1019-1038

  Borokhov, Vadim ^a   Kapustin, Anton ^a   Wu, Xinkai ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Field Theories in Lower Dimensions; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044442649     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/11/049     Document Type: Article

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