On the short-distance structure of irrational non-commutative gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 10 PART A, 2000, Pages

  Elitzur, Shmuel ^a   Rabinovici, Eliezer ^a   Pioline, Boris ^b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

Ads CFT Correspondance; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Lattice Quantum Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 6444242404     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/10/011     Document Type: Article

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