The tree formula for MHV graviton amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Nguyen, Dung ^a   Spradlin, Marcus ^a   Volovich, Anastasia ^a   Wen, Congkao ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

String duality; Supergravity models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954980982     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2010)045     Document Type: Article

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