Chiral flavors and M2-branes at toric CY4 singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Benini, Francesco ^a   Closset, Cyril ^b   Cremonesi, Stefano ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL SOLVAY INSTITUTES   (Belgium)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Chern Simons theories; M theory; Solitons monopoles and instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856384038     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)036     Document Type: Article

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