Green-Schwarz string in AdS5 × S5: Semiclassical partition function

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Drukker, Nadav ^a,b   Gross, David J ^a   Tseytlin, Arkady A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243675843     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/04/021     Document Type: Article

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