Affine sl(N) conformal blocks from N = 2 SU(N) gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kozçaz, Can ^a   Pasquetti, Sara ^a   Passerini, Filippo ^b   Wyllard, Niclas ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Conformal and W symmetry; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053107261     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)045     Document Type: Article

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