Spontaneous breaking of conformal invariance and trace anomaly matching

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 847, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 590-611

  Schwimmer, A ^a   Theisen, S ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

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EID: 79952694274     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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