Large-N volume independence in conformal and confining gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Ünsal, Mithat ^a,b   Yaffe, Laurence G ^a,b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Lattice QCD; Nonperturbative Effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955878424     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)030     Document Type: Article

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