Towards a holographic dual of large-Nc QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 947-988

  Kruczenski, Martín ^a   Mateos, David ^b   Myers, Robert C ^b,c   Winters, David J ^b,d  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; D branes; QCD; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144488112     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/041     Document Type: Article

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