Product Integral Representations of Wilson Lines and Wilson loops and Non-Abelian Stokes Theorem

Turkish Journal of Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 365-384

  Karp, Robert L ^a   Mansouri, Freydoon ^a   Rno, Jung S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

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