Gravitational contributions to gauge Green's functions and asymptotic free power-law running of gauge coupling

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Tang, Yong ^a,b   Wu, Yue Liang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gauge symmetry; Models of quantum gravity; Renormalization group; Renormalization regularization and renormalons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255197841     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)073     Document Type: Article

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