Calculating vacuum energies in renormalizable quantum field theories: A new approach to the Casimir problem

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 645, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 49-84

  Graham, N ^a   Jaffe, R L ^b   Khemani, V ^b   Quandt, M ^b   Scandurra, M ^b   Weigel, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0037010624     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(02)00823-4     Document Type: Article

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