The unwarped, resolved, deformed conifold: Fivebranes and the baryonic branch of the Klebanov-Strassler theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Maldacena, Juan ^a   Martelli, Dario ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gauge gravity correspondence; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954894997     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2010)104     Document Type: Article

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