Irregular singularities in Liouville theory and Argyres-Douglas type gauge theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2012)050zbMath1397.81305arXiv1203.1052MaRDI QIDQ1796190

Davide Gaiotto, Jörg Teschner

Publication date: 16 October 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1052

zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetric gauge theoryduality in gauge field theoriesconformal field models in string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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