Inherited twistor-space structure of gravity amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1618-1648

  Bern, Zvi ^a   Bjerrum Bohr, Niels Emil Jannik ^b   Dunbar, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Models of Quantum Gravity; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444450035     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/056     Document Type: Article

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