On the universality class of the conifold

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1-27

  Berenstein, David ^a  

^a School of Natural Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondance; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Non Commutative Geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744734659     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/11/060     Document Type: Article

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