Quiver theories, soliton spectra and Picard-Lefschetz transformations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1265-1297

  Feng, Bo ^a   Hanany, Amihay ^a   He, Yang Hui ^a   Iqbal, Amer ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Duality in Gauge Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044484794     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/02/056     Document Type: Article

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