Holomorphy, rescaling anomalies and exact β functions in supersymmetric gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 19-42

  Arkani Hamed, Nima ^a   Murayama, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

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EID: 7044237431     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/06/030     Document Type: Article

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