Worldline approach to quantum field theories on flat manifolds with boundaries

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Bastianelli, Fiorenzo ^a   Corradini, Olindo ^a   Pisani, Pablo A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Field theories in higher dimensions; Field theories in lower dimensions; Sigma models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947656458     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/059     Document Type: Article

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