Reading between the lines of four-dimensional gauge theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2013)115zbMath1342.81248arXiv1305.0318WikidataQ59711152 ScholiaQ59711152MaRDI QIDQ737504

Nathan Seiberg, Ofer Aharony, Yuji Tachikawa

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0318

zbMATH Keywords

duality in gauge field theories discrete and finite symmetries supersymmetry and duality Wilson, 't Hooft and Polyakov loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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