Pinch technique at two loops: The case of massless Yang-Mills theories

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1-25

  Papavassiliou, Joannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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EID: 85037255353     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.045006     Document Type: Article

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