Unravelling the novel Higgs mechanism in (2+1)d Chern-Simons theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Mukhi, Sunil ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Chern Simons theories; Field theories in lower dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855221502     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2011)083     Document Type: Article

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