Covariant non-local action for massless QED and the curvature expansion

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2015)044zbMath1388.83225arXiv1507.06321OpenAlexW2963720115MaRDI QIDQ2635950

Basem Kamal El-Menoufi, John F. Donoghue

Publication date: 31 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06321

zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryeffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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