Continuity, deconfinement, and (super) Yang-Mills theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Poppitz, Erich ^a   Schäfer, Thomas ^b   Ünsal, Mithat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confinement; Duality in gauge field theories; Solitons monopoles and instantons; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868278553     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)115     Document Type: Article

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