World-sheet instantons via the Myers effect and N = 1* quiver superpotentials

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1745-1767

  Hollowood, Timothy J ^a   Kumar, S Prem ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044503878     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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