Correlators, probabilities and topologies in N = 4 SYM

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Brown, Tom ^a   Ramgoolam, Sanjaye ^a   De Mello Koch, Robert ^b   Toumbas, Nick ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; AdS CFT correspondence; Nonperturbative effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947616283     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/072     Document Type: Article

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