On the geometry and the moduli space of β-deformed quiver gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Butti, Agostino ^a   Forcella, Davide ^b,c,d   Martucci, Luca ^e   Minasian, Ruben ^f   Petrini, Michela ^a   Zaffaroni, Alberto ^g,h  

^a LPTHE   (France)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f CEA SACLAY   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^h INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Gauge gravity correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749116758     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/053     Document Type: Article

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