Quantisation of the effective string with TBA

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Caselle, Michele ^a   Fioravanti, Davide ^b   Gliozzi, Ferdinando ^a   Tateo, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

't Hooft and Polyakov loops; Boundary Quantum Field Theory; Exact S Matrix; Integrable Field Theories; Wilson

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881329664     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2013)071     Document Type: Article

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