Hidden symmetries and integrable hierarchy of the script N sign = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills equations

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 275, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 685-708

  Popov, Alexander D ^a,b   Wolf, Martin ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34548430436     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: 14320916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-007-0296-1     Document Type: Article

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