Asymptotic safety

Approaches to Quantum Gravity: Toward a New Understanding of Space, Time and Matter

Volumn 9780521860451, Issue , 2009, Pages 111-128

  Percacci, R ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; RELATIVITY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

COHERENT FRAMEWORKS; EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY; GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL; QUANTUM CALCULATION; QUANTUM CORRECTION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RENORMALIZATION GROUP;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84927057908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511575549.009     Document Type: Chapter

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