The Power of Duality — Exact Results in 4D SUSY Field Theory

DOI10.1142/S0217751X97002772zbMath0907.58076OpenAlexW4253423365MaRDI QIDQ4211996

Nathan Seiberg

Publication date: 19 October 1998

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x97002772

zbMATH Keywords

surveyelectric-magnetic dualityfour-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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