Twistor-strings, Grassmannians and leading singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Bullimore, Mathew ^a   Mason, Lionel ^a   Skinner, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Duality in gauge field theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954949459     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2010)070     Document Type: Article

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