An analytic result for the two-loop hexagon Wilson loop in N = 4 SYM

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Del Duca, Vittorio ^a   Duhr, Claude ^b   Smirnov, Vladimir A ^c  

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gauge symmetry; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954937163     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2010)099     Document Type: Article

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