Vortex strings and four-dimensional gauge dynamics

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1479-1505

  Hanany, Amihay ^a   Tong, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonperturbative Effects; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044469599     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/04/066     Document Type: Article

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