Classical trace anomaly

International Journal of Modern Physics D

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1233-1250

  Farhoudi, M ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Higher order gravity; Lovelock and Einstein tensors; Weyl anomaly

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844509122     PISSN: 02182718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271805006730     Document Type: Article

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