Instability of generalised AdS black holes and thermal field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 521-535

  Hartnoll, Sean A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Black Holes

Indexed keywords

EID: 6044267061     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/08/019     Document Type: Article

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