RG flows in d dimensions, the dilaton effective action, and the a-theorem

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Elvang, Henriette ^a   Olson, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Renormalization Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876324183     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2013)034     Document Type: Article

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