On renormalization group flows and the \(a\)-theorem in 6d

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2012)011zbMath1397.81179arXiv1205.3994OpenAlexW3104880162MaRDI QIDQ1796006

Michael Kiermaier, Ling-Yan Hung, Daniel Z. Freedman, Henriette Elvang, Robert C. Myers, Stefan J. Theisen

Publication date: 16 October 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3994

zbMATH Keywords

conformal symmetry Paneitz operator Coulomb branch Weyl transformation ective action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

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