Confinement, glueballs and strings from deformed AdS

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1511-1534

  Apreda, Riccardo ^a,b,c   Crooks, David E ^c   Evans, Nick ^c   Petrini, Michela ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Confinement; Nonperturbative Effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044484052     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/065     Document Type: Article

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