Surface operator, bubbling Calabi-Yau and AGT relation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Taki, Masato ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry; String Duality; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053162163     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)047     Document Type: Article

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