IR divergences and Regge limits of subleading-color contributions to the four-gluon amplitude in N=4 SYM theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Naculich, Stephen G ^a   Schnitzer, Howard J ^b  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Extended Supersymmetry; NLO Computations; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350764013     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/048     Document Type: Article

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