Superconformal vortex strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Tong, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846159152     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/051     Document Type: Review

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