The universal RG machine

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Benedetti, Dario ^a   Groh, Kai ^b   Machado, Pedro F ^c   Saueressig, Frank ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Models of Quantum Gravity; Renormalization Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053134950     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)079     Document Type: Article

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