A note on instanton counting for N = 2 gauge theories with classical gauge groups

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 431-454

  Mariño, Marcos ^a,b   Wyllard, Niclas ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Supersymmetry and Duality; Topological Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044485921     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/021     Document Type: Article

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