Free energy of N = 4 super Yang-Mills in Higgs phase and non-extremal D3-brane interactions

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 541, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 145-162

  Tseytlin, A A ^a,b   Yankielowicz, S ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

D brane probes; String theory; Yang Mills thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033593760     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00762-7     Document Type: Article

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