Notes on supersymmetric Wilson loops on a two-sphere

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Giombi, Simone ^a   Pestun, Vasily ^a   Ricci, Riccardo ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Field theories in lower dimensions; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954991842     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2010)088     Document Type: Article

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