Absence of higher derivatives in the renormalization of propagators in quantum field theories with infinitely many couplings

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2355-2378

  Anselmi, Damiano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 0037871980     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/20/11/326     Document Type: Article

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