On the worldsheet theories of strings dual to free large N gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Komargodski, Zohar ^a   Razamat, Shlomo S ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; AdS CFT Correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891651896     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/05/016     Document Type: Article

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