Exact results and holography of Wilson loops in N = 2 superconformal (quiver) gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rey, Soo Jong ^a   Suyama, Takao ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Extended supersymmetry; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053100422     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)136     Document Type: Article

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