Augmented recursion for one-loop gravity amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Dunbar, David C ^a   Ettle, James H ^a   Perkins, Warren B ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Models of quantum gravity; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954992381     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)027     Document Type: Article

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