The virtue of defects in 4D gauge theories and 2D CFTs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Drukker, Nadav ^a   Gaiotto, Davide ^b   Gomis, Jaume ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053103758     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)025     Document Type: Article

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