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Three-dimensional superconformal field theories, indices, and monopoles

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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.

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Prepared from an English manuscript submitted by the author; for the Russian version, see Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 174, No. 1, pp. 77–89, January, 2013.

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Kim, S. Three-dimensional superconformal field theories, indices, and monopoles. Theor Math Phys 174, 68–77 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-013-0005-5

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