Gauge theory loop operators and Liouville theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Drukker, Nadav ^a   Gomis, Jaume ^b   Okuda, Takuya ^b   Teschner, Jörg ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duality in gauge field theories; Field theories in lower dimensions; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954660763     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)057     Document Type: Article

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