Fractal propagators in QED and QCD and implications for the problem of confinement

Brazilian Journal of Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1 B, 2007, Pages 286-292

  Gulzari, S ^a   Srivastava, Y N ^a   Swain, J ^a   Widom, A ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confinement; Fractals; Nonperturbative methods; QCD; QED; Theory of quantized fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249077038     PISSN: 01039733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0103-97332007000200021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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