Study of scheme transformations to remove higher-loop terms in the β function of a gauge theory

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Shrock, Robert ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84883478533     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.036003     Document Type: Article

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