Instantons, compactification and s-duality in n = 4 susy yang-mills theory ii

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1-23

  Dorey, Nick ^a   Parnachev, Andrei ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonperturbative Effects; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745053653     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/059     Document Type: Article

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