On the physical mechanism underlying asymptotic safety

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nink, Andreas ^a   Reuter, Martin ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Models of Quantum Gravity; Renormalization Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872278811     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2013)062     Document Type: Article

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