PT symmetry and QCD: Finite temperature and density

Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ogilvie, Michael C ^a   Meisinger, Peter N ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

PT symmetry; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049095727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18150659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2009.047     Document Type: Article

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