Comments on supercurrent multiplets, supersymmetric field theories and supergravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Komargodski, Zohar ^a   Seiberg, Nathan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Supergravity models; Supersymmetric effective theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954966366     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2010)017     Document Type: Review

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