Conformality or confinement (II): One-flavor CFTs and mixed-representation QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Poppitz, Erich ^a   Ünsal, Mithat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confinement; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Lattice Gauge Field Theories; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549153231     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/12/011     Document Type: Article

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