Instanton-induced Yang-Mills correlation functions at large N and their AdS5 × S5 duals

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1291-1374

  Green, Michael B ^a   Kovacs, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044509184     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/058     Document Type: Article

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