Bubble Divergences from Cellular Cohomology

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-305

  Bonzom, Valentin ^a   Smerlak, Matteo ^a  

^a CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

bubble divergence; powercounting; spinfoam models; topological gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955843854     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-010-0414-4     Document Type: Article

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