The Hagedorn/deconfinement phase transition in weakly coupled large N gauge theories

Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 603-696

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Marsano, Joseph ^b   Minwalla, Shiraz ^b   Papadodimas, Kyriakos ^b   Van Raamsdonk, Mark ^c,d  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 24944531686     PISSN: 10950761     EISSN: 10950753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/ATMP.2004.v8.n4.a1     Document Type: Article

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