Off-shell M5 brane, perturbed Seiberg-Witten theory, and metastable vacua

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 804, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 19-69

  Marsano, Joseph ^a   Papadodimas, Kyriakos ^b   Shigemori, Masaki ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 49349087656     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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