Renormalization of the charged scalar field in curved space

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3285-3295

  Herman, Rhett ^a   Hiscock, William A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000097735     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.3285     Document Type: Article

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