IIA perspective on cascading gauge theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Kutasova, David ^a   Wissanji, Alisha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brane dynamics in gauge theories; D branes; M Theory; String duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867052031     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2012)080     Document Type: Review

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