Confinement and the effective string theory in SU(N → ∞): A lattice study

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 643-663

  Meyer, Harvey ^a   Teper, Michael ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Confinement; Lattice Gauge Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044466544     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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