Affine SL(2) Conformal Blocks from 4d Gauge Theories

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-114

  Alday, Luis F ^a   Tachikawa, Yuji ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

conformal field theory; gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956873808     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-010-0422-4     Document Type: Article

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