The effect of gravitational tidal forces on renormalized quantum fields

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hollowood, Timothy J ^a   Shore, Graham M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black holes; Classical theories of gravity; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857846546     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)120     Document Type: Article

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