A& B model approaches to surface operators and Toda thoeries

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Kozçaz, Can ^a   Pasquetti, Sara ^a   Wyllard, Niclas ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955891582     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)042     Document Type: Article

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