The master space of N = 1 gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Forcella, Davide ^a,b   Hanany, Amihay ^c,d   He, Yang Hui ^e,f   Zaffaroni, Alberto ^g  

^a SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Collegium Mertonense in Academia Oxoniensis ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brane dynamics in gauge theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749135299     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/012     Document Type: Article

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