What Maxwell theory in d≠4 teaches us about scale and conformal invariance

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 848, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 578-593

  El Showk, Sheer ^a   Nakayama, Yu ^b   Rychkov, Slava ^c  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

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EID: 79954614834     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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