Branes and fluxes in special holonomy manifolds and cascading field theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Hashimoto, Akikazu ^a   Hirano, Shinji ^b   Ouyang, Peter ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Gauge gravity correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053134556     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)101     Document Type: Article

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