On the holographic duals of n = 1 gauge dynamics

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1-26

  Loewy, Amit ^a   Sonnenschein, Jacob ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondance; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Confinement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745030833     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/007     Document Type: Article

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