Ultraviolet sensitivity in higher dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1489-1532

  Hoover, Doug ^a   Burgess, Clifford P ^a,b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645532611     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/058     Document Type: Article

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