Dual conformal constraints and infrared equations from global residue theorems in N=4 SYM theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Brödel, Johannes ^a,b   He, Song ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duality in gauge field theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955046884     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)054     Document Type: Article

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