Solution to the Ward identities for superamplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Elvang, Henriette ^a   Freedman, Daniel Z ^b,c   Kiermaier, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended supersymmetry; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649694023     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2010)103     Document Type: Article

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