Running boundary actions, Asymptotic Safety, and Black Hole Thermodynamics

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Becker, Daniel ^a   Reuter, Martin ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black Holes; Models of quantum gravity; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864443059     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)172     Document Type: Article

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