Conformal Invariance in Physics

DOI10.1103/RevModPhys.34.442zbMath0107.40804MaRDI QIDQ3843365

Thomas Fulton, Fritz Rohrlich, Louis Witten

Publication date: 1962

Published in: Reviews of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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theoretical physics

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