The Master Ward Identity and Generalized Schwinger-Dyson Equation in Classical Field Theory

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-314

  Dütsch, Michael ^a   Fredenhagen, Klaus ^b  

^a Institut für theoretische Physik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0346995413     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-003-0968-4     Document Type: Article

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