Brane tilings and M2 branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Hanany, Amihay ^a   Vegh, David ^b   Zaffaroni, Alberto ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Chern simons theories; M theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649519207     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/012     Document Type: Article

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