The partition function of interfaces from the Nambu-Goto effective string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Billó, Marco ^a   Caselle, Michele ^a   Ferro, Livia ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bosonic strings; Confinement; Lattice gauge field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010303470     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/02/070     Document Type: Article

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