Causality, analyticity and an IR obstruction to UV completion

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Adams, Allan ^a   Arkani Hamed, Nima ^a   Dubovsky, Sergei ^a,b,c   Nicolis, Alberto ^a   Rattazzi, Riccardo ^b,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Renormalization Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846125295     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/10/014     Document Type: Review

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