Phases of thermal N = 2 quiver gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Larsen, Kasper J ^a   Obers, Niels A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; AdS CFT correspondence; Matrix models

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949145820     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/01/057     Document Type: Article

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