On supertwistors, the Penrose-Ward transform and N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory

Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 931-998

  Popov, Alexander D ^a   Sämann, Christian ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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EID: 33748069269     PISSN: 10950761     EISSN: 10950753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/ATMP.2005.v9.n6.a2     Document Type: Article

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