Free large-N supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory as a string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Haggi Mani, Parviz ^a   Sundborg, Bo ^a  

^a Institute of Theoretical Physics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 6944230013     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/04/031     Document Type: Article

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