The BPS spectrum of monopole operators in ABJM: Towards a field theory description of the giant torus

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Berenstein, David ^a   Park, Jaemo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chern simons theories; Gauge gravity correspondence; M theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954990998     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)073     Document Type: Article

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