A non-renormalization theorem for conformal anomalies

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 561, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 100-116

  Petkou, Anastasios ^a   Skenderis, Kostas ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AdS CFT; Anomalies; CFT; N = 4 SYM; Non renormalization theorems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033536864     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00514-3     Document Type: Article

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