Probing N = 4 SYM with surface operators

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Drukker, Nadav ^a   Gomis, Jaume ^b   Matsuura, Shunji ^b,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Brane dynamics in gauge theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149279637     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/048     Document Type: Article

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