Renormalization group flows and continual Lie algebras

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 307-376

  Bakas, Loannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Integrable Equations in Physics; Renormalization Group; Sigma Models; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044457512     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/08/013     Document Type: Article

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