Tree-level recursion relation and dual superconformal symmetry of the ABJM theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Gang, Dongmin ^a   Huang, Yu Tin ^b   Koh, Eunkyung ^a   Lee, Sangmin ^c   Lipstein, Arthur E ^d  

^a Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Chern Simons theories; Space time symmetries; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053096425     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)116     Document Type: Article

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