Scattering amplitudes and BCFW recursion in twistor space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Duality in gauge field theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955001596     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2010)064     Document Type: Article

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