From toric geometry to quiver gauge theory: The equivalence of a-maximization and Z-minimization

Fortschritte der Physik

Volumn 54, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 309-316

  Butti, Agostino ^a   Zaffaroni, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Dimer models; Quiver gauge theories; Toric geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646671179     PISSN: 00158208     EISSN: 15213978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prop.200510276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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