Improved Schwinger-DeWitt techniques for higher-derivative perturbations of operator determinants

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Anselmi, Damiano ^a,b   Benini, Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Models of quantum gravity; Renormalization regularization and renormalons

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748971023     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/099     Document Type: Article

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