On the matter of the Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1169-1188

  Kraus, Per ^a   Shigemori, Masaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confinement; Matrix Models; Nonperturbative Effects; Superspaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044450846     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/052     Document Type: Article

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