Higgsing M2-brane theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Davey, John ^a   Hanany, Amihay ^a   Mekareeya, Noppadol ^a   Torri, Giuseppe ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chern simons theories; Conformal field mod els in string theory; Duality in gauge field theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449978121     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/028     Document Type: Article

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