Renormalization flow of Yang-Mills propagators

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1043-1073

  Fischer, Christian S ^a   Gies, Holger ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confinement; Nonperturbative Effects; Renormalization Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044492620     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/048     Document Type: Article

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