Non-critical holography and four-dimensional CFT's with fundamentals

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 235-270

  Bigazzi, Francesco ^a,b   Casero, Roberto ^c   Cotrone, Aldo Lorenzo ^d   Kiritsis, Elias ^c,e   Paredes, Angel ^c  

^a LPTHE   (France)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^c CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^d BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544458482     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/012     Document Type: Article

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