Scattering into the fifth dimension of N = 4 super Yang-Mills

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Alday, Luis F ^a   Henn, Johannes ^b   Plefka, Jan ^a   Schuster, Theodor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; AdS CFT correspondence; Extended supersymmetry; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955045931     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2010)077     Document Type: Article

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