Central functions and their physical implications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1998, Pages

  Anselmi, Damiano ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Anomalies in field and string theories; Conformal and w symmetry; Renormalization regularization and renormalons; Supersymmetry and duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645921971     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/05/005     Document Type: Article

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