The effective theory of long strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Aharony, Ofer ^a,b   Komargodski, Zohar ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lattice Quantum Field Theory; Long strings; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878920790     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)118     Document Type: Article

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