Partition function for a singular background

DOI10.1016/j.physletb.2005.02.010zbMath1247.81305arXivhep-th/0412156OpenAlexW2032535884MaRDI QIDQ451631

J. J. McKenzie-Smith, Wade Naylor

Publication date: 23 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412156

zbMATH Keywords

finite temperature field theoryquantum fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16)

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