Asymptotic safety guaranteed

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Litim, Daniel F ^a   Sannino, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Renormalization Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920540207     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2014)178     Document Type: Article

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