A note on the UV behaviour of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 682, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 137-142

  Bossard, G ^a   Howe, P S ^b   Stelle, K S ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 71849091795     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.10.084     Document Type: Article

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