Stringy corrections to the Wilson loop in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1999, Pages

  Förste, Stefan ^a   Ghoshal, Debashis ^b   Theisen, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Sigma Models; Strong Coupling Expansion; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645916106     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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