Gauge theories from D7-branes over vanishing 4-cycles

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Franco, Sebastian ^a   Torroba, Gonzalo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane dynamics in gauge theories; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957520897     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)017     Document Type: Article

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