Wilson loops, confinement, and phase transitions in large N gauge theories from supergravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1998, Pages

  Brandhuber, Andreas ^a   Itzhaki, Nissan ^a   Sonnenschein, Jacob ^a   Yankielowicz, Shimon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Black holes in string theory; Brane dynamics in gauge theories; Confinement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645898657     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/06/001     Document Type: Article

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