Supersymmetric states in large N Chern-Simons-matter theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Minwalla, Shiraz ^a   Narayan, Prithvi ^a   Sharma, Tarun ^a   Umesh, V ^a   Yin, Xi ^b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Chern Simons Theories; Strong Coupling Expansion; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857806000     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)022     Document Type: Article

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