AdS/CFT correspondence and topological field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 1998, Pages

  Witten, Edward ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; String Duality; Topological Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645953319     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/12/012     Document Type: Article

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