Deconstructing (2, 0) and little string theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1797-1809

  Arkani Hamed, Nima ^a,c   Cohen, Andrew Glen ^a,d   Karch, Andreas ^a   Motl, Luboš ^a   Kaplan, David B ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Boston University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Lattice Quantum Field Theory; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044473301     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/083     Document Type: Article

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