Exactly marginal deformations and global symmetries

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Green, Daniel ^a   Komargodski, Zohar ^a   Seiberg, Nathan ^a   Tachikawa, Yuji ^a   Wecht, Brian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global symmetries; Renormalization group; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Supersymmetry and duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954975950     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)106     Document Type: Article

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