A counterexample to the a-'theorem'

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Shapere, Alfred D ^a,b   Tachikawa, Yuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended supersymmetry; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Supersymmetry and duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649159892     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/020     Document Type: Article

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