Explicit cancellation of triangles in one-loop gravity amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Bjerrum Bohr, N E J ^a   Vanhove, Pierre ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Supersymmetric effective theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449155960     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/065     Document Type: Article

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