Vortex loop operators, M2-branes and holography

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Drukker, Nadav ^a   Gomis, Jaume ^b   Young, Donovan ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Chern simons theories; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649537916     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/004     Document Type: Article

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