On the effective action of confining strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Karzbrun, Eyal ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Confinement; Gauge gravity correspondence; Long strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350017850     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/012     Document Type: Article

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