Two-loop amplitudes of gluons and octa-cuts in N = 4 super Yang-Mills

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 11, 2005, Pages 885-918

  Buchbinder, Evgeny I ^a   Cachazo, Freddy ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extended Supersymmetry; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645503640     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/11/036     Document Type: Article

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