Orientifold, geometric transition and large N duality for so / Sp gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Edelstein, José D ^a,c   Oh, Kyungho ^a,c   Tatar, Radu ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane dynamics in gauge theories; D branes; String Duality; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744741403     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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