Webs of five-branes and N = 2 superconformal field theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Benini, Francesco ^a   Benvenuti, Sergio ^a   Tachikawa, Yuji ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane dynamics in gauge theories; Extended Supersymmetry; Intersecting branes models; Supersymmetry and duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350006626     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/052     Document Type: Article

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