Properties of chiral Wilson loops

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1681-1695

  Guralnik, Zachary ^a   Kulik, Bogdan ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Extended Supersymmetry; Topological Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144456148     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/065     Document Type: Article

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