Minimal surfaces in AdS space and integrable systems

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Burringtona, Benjamin A ^a   Gaoa, Peng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Integrable Field Theories; Sigma Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954909333     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)060     Document Type: Article

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