The omega deformation, branes, integrability and Liouville theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Nekrasov, Nikita ^a,b   Witten, Edward ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane dynamics in gauge theories; Integrable field theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649701843     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)092     Document Type: Article

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