Fundamentals of the exact renormalization group

Physics Reports

Volumn 511, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 177-272

  Rosten, Oliver J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2011.12.003     Document Type: Review

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