Weyl anomaly in higher dimensions and Feynman rules in coordinate space

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2259-2290

  Ichinose, Shoichi ^a,c   Ikeda, Noriaki ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

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EID: 0033467768     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.532863     Document Type: Article

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