A holographic computation of the central charges of d = 4, N = 2 SCFTs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Tachikawa, Yuji ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Duality in gauge field theories; P branes; Supersymmetry and duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949181128     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/01/037     Document Type: Article

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