Seiberg-Witten and "Polyakov-like" magnetic bion cofinements are continuously connected

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Poppitza, Erich ^a   Ünsalb, Mithat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confinement; Duality in Gauge Field Theories Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053240855     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)082     Document Type: Article

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