Non-perturbative equivalences among large Nc gauge theories with adjoint and bifundamental matter fields

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 789-829

  Kovtun, Pavel ^a   Ünsal, Mithat ^a   Yaffe, Laurence G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Lattice Gauge Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044460046     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/12/034     Document Type: Article

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