On the instantons and the hypermultiplet mass of N = 2* super Yang-Mills on S 4

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Okuda, Takuya ^a   Pestun, Vasily ^b  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

't Hooft and Polyakov loops; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Wilson

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859551504     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2012)017     Document Type: Article

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