Tilings, Chern-Simons theories and M2 branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Hanany, Amihay ^a   Zaffaroni, Alberto ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Brane dynamics in gauge theories; gauge gravity correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149300004     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/111     Document Type: Article

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