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Supergravity duals of supersymmetric four-dimensional gauge theories

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Bigazzi, F., Cotrone, A.L., Petrini, M. et al. Supergravity duals of supersymmetric four-dimensional gauge theories. Riv. Nuovo Cim. 25, 1–70 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03548915

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