Clearing the throat: Irrelevant operators and finite temperature in large-N gauge theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 13-29

  Evans, Nick ^a   Johnson, Clifford V ^b   Petrini, Michela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Black Holes in String Theory; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044437039     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/05/002     Document Type: Article

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