An introduction to the worldline technique for quantum field theory calculations

Acta Physica Polonica B

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3965-4001

  Schubert, Ch ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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