Closed flux tubes and their string description in D=2+1 SU(N) gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Athenodorou, Andreas ^a   Bringoltz, Barak ^b   Teper, Michael ^c  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b Israeli Institute for Advanced Research   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; Bosonic strings; Confinement; Lattice gauge field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887212516     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)042     Document Type: Article

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