Scale without conformal invariance: Theoretical foundations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Fortin, Jean Francois ^a   Grinstein, Benjamín ^a   Stergiou, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Renormalization group; Space time symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864493343     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)025     Document Type: Article

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