Three-dimensional superconformal field theories, indices, and monopoles

S. Kim

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract: We explain the recent progress in three-dimensional superconformal field theories based on the index for magnetic monopole operators and discuss applications to M2-branes and the AdS/CFT duality.

Keywords: supersymmetric gauge theory, AdS/CFT duality, Chern–Simons theory.

DOI: 10.4213/tmf8351

 English version: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2013, 174:1, 68–77

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