Conformal Invariance in Physics

DOI10.1103/REVMODPHYS.34.442zbMATH Open0107.40804MaRDI QIDQ3843365FDOQ3843365

Authors: Thomas Fulton, Fritz Rohrlich, Louis Witten 

Publication date: 1962

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

zbMATH Keywords

theoretical physics

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