The effective field theory of codimension-two branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  De Rham, Claudia ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Field theories in higher dimensions; Large extra dimensions; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949133941     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/01/060     Document Type: Article

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