Scale without conformal invariance at three loops

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal and W symmetry; Renormalization group; Space time symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865802075     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)085     Document Type: Article

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