Renormalization and redundancy in 2d quantum field theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Behr, Nicolas ^a   Konechny, Anatoly ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894423762     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2014)001     Document Type: Article

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