Anti-de Sitter space and the center of the gauge group

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1998, Pages

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Witten, Edward ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete and finite symmetries; Field theories in higher dimensions; Gauge symmetry; Global symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645942107     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/11/018     Document Type: Article

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