Notes on superconformai Chern-Simons-Matter theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Gaiotto, Davide ^a   Yin, Xi ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 n expansion; Ads cft correspondence; Chern simons theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953270738     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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