Seiberg duality in Chern-Simons theories with fundamental and adjoint matter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Niarchos, Vasilis ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chern Simons theories; Duality in gauge field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149310488     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/001     Document Type: Article

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