Nonperturbative superpotentials and compactification to three dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 179-221

  Boels, Rutger ^a   De Boer, Jan ^a   Duivenvoorden, Robert ^a   Wijnhout, Jeroen ^a  

^a Inatituut voor Theoretische Fysica   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Field Theories in Lower Dimensions; Integrable Equations in Physics; Nonperturbative Effects; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044494025     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/03/009     Document Type: Review

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