Topology change in commuting saddles of thermal = 4 SYM theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Gürsoy, Umut ^a,b   Hartnoll, Sean A ^c   Hollowood, Timothy J ^d   Kumar, S Prem ^d  

^a CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; AdS CFT correspondence; Black holes in string theory; Thermal field teory

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849095683     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/020     Document Type: Article

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