Non-Perturbative Mass and Charge Renormalization in Relativistic No-Photon Quantum Electrodynamics

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 241-260

  Hainzl, Christian ^a,b   Siedentop, Heinz ^a  

^a Mathematik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

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EID: 0347626210     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-003-0958-6     Document Type: Article

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