Renormalization and asymptotic safety in truncated quantum Einstein gravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1423-1482

  Niedermaier, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Models of Quantum Gravity; Renormalization Group; Sigma Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044489257     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/12/066     Document Type: Article

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