Domain walls and metastable vacua in hot "orientifold Field Theories"

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Armoni, Adi ^a   Korthals Altes, Chris P ^b,c   Patella, Agostino ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; Confinement; Lattice gauge field theories; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650236870     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2010)004     Document Type: Article

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