Multiple (inverse) binomial sums of arbitrary weight and depth and the all-order ε-expansion of generalized hypergeometric functions with one half-integer value of parameter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Kalmykov, Mikhail Yu ^a,b,c   Ward, Bennie F L ^a   Yost, Scott A ^a,d  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrable hierarchies; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748929393     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/048     Document Type: Article

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