Feynman rules and β-function for the BF Yang-Mills theory

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 401, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 62-68

  Martellini, Maurizio ^a   Zeni, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beta function; Feynman rules; Topological BF theory; Yang Mills

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002486273     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00379-1     Document Type: Article

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