Holographic conformal window - A bottom up approach

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Järvinen, Matti ^a   Sannino, Francesco ^a  

^a CP3 Origins ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Confinement; Gauge gravity correspondence; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954962712     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)041     Document Type: Article

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