The conformal anomaly of k-strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Giudice, Pietro ^a   Gliozzi, Ferdinando ^a   Lottini, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confinement; Duality in gauge field theories; Lattice gauge field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547609099     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/010     Document Type: Article

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