A Class of Elementary Particle Models Without Any Adjustable Real Parameters

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1829-1856

  ’t Hooft, Gerard ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Spinoza Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Black hole; Complementarity; Conformal anomaly; Counter terms; Divergence; Einstein Hilbert action; Faddeev Popoc ghost; Gravitons; Higgs mechanism; Quantum gravity; Renormalization; Standard Model; Weyl curvature; Yang Mills fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255122666     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-011-9586-8     Document Type: Article

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