Four-dimensional SCFTs from M5-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Bah, Ibrahima ^a   Beem, Christopher ^b   Bobev, Nikolay ^b   Wecht, Brian ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Conformal field models in string theory; M theory; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864338284     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2012)005     Document Type: Article

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