Quivers, tilings, branes and rhombi

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Hanany, Amihay ^a   Vegh, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Gauge gravity correspondence; Intersecting branes models

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748940948     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/029     Document Type: Article

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