Recursion relations, generating functions, and unitarity sums in N = 4 SYM theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Elvang, Henriette ^a   Freedman, Daniel Z ^a,b   Kiermaier, Michael ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extended supersymmetry; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649519198     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/009     Document Type: Article

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