Little string origin of surface defects

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)082zbMath1380.83256arXiv1608.07279MaRDI QIDQ682971

Christian Schmid, Nathan Haouzi

Publication date: 5 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07279

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorysupersymmetric gauge theoryconformal and W symmetryconformal field models in string theoryADE-type Toda CFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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