From necklace quivers to the F-theorem, operator counting, and T (U(N))

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Gulotta, Daniel R ^a   Herzog, Christopher P ^a   Pufu, Silviu S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; AdS CFT Correspondence; Chern Simons Theories; Strong Coupling Expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84455209447     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2011)077     Document Type: Article

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