The free energy of N = 4 super Yang-Mills and the AdS/CFT correspondence

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1999, Pages

  Burgess, Clifford P ^a   Constable, Neil R ^a   Myers, Robert C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Extended Supersymmetry; Strong Coupling Expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645921974     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/08/017     Document Type: Article

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