Gregory-Laflamme as the confinement/deconfinement transition in holographic QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Mandal, Gautam ^a   Morita, Takeshi ^b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Black Holes in String Theory; Confinement; Gauge gravity correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053143223     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2011)073     Document Type: Article

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