Strong obstruction of the Berends-Burgers-van Dam spin-3 vertex

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Bekaert, Xavier ^a   Boulanger, Nicolas ^b   Leclercq, Serge ^b  

^a Université Fran cois Rabelais ^*  (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

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EID: 77951161953     PISSN: 17518113     EISSN: 17518121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/43/18/185401     Document Type: Article

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