Pinch technique: Theory and applications

Physics Reports

Volumn 479, Issue 1-6, 2009, Pages 1-152

  Binosi, Daniele ^a   Papavassiliou, Joannis ^b  

^a ECT   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dynamical mass generation; Gauge bosons; Gauge invariance; Gluons; Greens functions; Non Abelian gauge theories; Schwinger Dyson equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549101799     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2009.05.001     Document Type: Review

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