Branches of N = 1 vacua and argyres-douglas points

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1483-1502

  Eguchi, Tohru ^a   Sugawara, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confinement; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Nonperturbative Effects; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744994368     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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