Higgs-regularized three-loop four-gluon amplitude in N = 4 SYM: Exponentiation and Regge limits

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Henn, Johannes M ^a   Naculich, Stephen G ^b   Schnitzer, Howard J ^c   Spradlin, Marcus ^d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; AdS CFT Correspondence; NLO Computations; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954898268     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)038     Document Type: Article

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