Closed flux tubes and their string description in D = 3 + 1 SU(N) gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

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

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; Lattice gauge field theories; Long strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887213301     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2011)030     Document Type: Review

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