Limit cycles and conformal invariance

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

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

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry; Renormalization Group; Space Time Symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873321306     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2013)184     Document Type: Article

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