Carving out the space of 4D CFTs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Poland, David ^a,b   Simmons Duffin, David ^a   Vichi, Alessandro ^c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal and W symmetry; Global symmetries; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861795130     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)110     Document Type: Article

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