On the supergravity evaluation of Wilson loop correlators in confining theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-12

  Sonnenschein, Jacob ^a   Loewy, Amit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; p branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444230609     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/042     Document Type: Article

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