Counting BPS baryonic operators in CFTs with Sasaki-Einstein duals

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Butti, Agostino ^a   Forcella, Davide ^b   Zaffaroni, Alberto ^c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Brane dynamics in gauge theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547700316     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/069     Document Type: Article

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