Supergravity and a confining gauge theory: Duality cascades and χSB-resolution of naked singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 8 PART B, 2000, Pages 21-35

  Klebanov, Igor R ^a   Strassler, Matthew J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondance; Confinement; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Non perturbative Effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243856559     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/052     Document Type: Article

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