Type IIB construction of flavoured ABJ(M) and fractional M2 branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Cremonesi, Stefano ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Brane dynamics in gauge theories; Chern simons theories; M theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052673732     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)076     Document Type: Article

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