D-brane probes of special holonomy manifolds, and dynamics of N = 1 three-dimensional gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1213-1281

  Gukov, Sergei ^a   Tong, David ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Field Theories in Lower Dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044450524     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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