Causal perturbation theory in terms of retarded products, and a proof of the action ward identity

Reviews in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1291-1348

  Dütsch, Michael ^a   Fredenhagen, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axiomatic approach; Perturbation theory; Renormalization; Renormalization group evolution of parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 13144304344     PISSN: 0129055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129055X04002266     Document Type: Article

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