Large-N duality, Lens spaces and the Chern-Simons matrix model

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 301-310

  Halmagyi, Nick ^a,b   Okuda, Takuya ^c   Yasnov, Vadim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Chern Simons Theories; Matrix Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044462261     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/04/014     Document Type: Article

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