From super-yang-mills theory to QCD: Planar equivalence and its implications

From Fields to Strings: Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics: Ian Kogan Memorial Collection

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 353-444

  Armoni, A ^a   Shifman, M ^b   Veneziano, G ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAGES; QUANTUM THEORY;

ANALYTIC CALCULATIONS; FIELD THEORY; GAUGE THEORY; LARGE N; YANG-MILLS THEORY;

SUPERSYMMETRY;

EID: 85014634161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812775344_0013     Document Type: Chapter

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