On BCFW shifts of integrands and integrals

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Boels, Rutger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended supersymmetry; Field theories in higher dimensions; NLO computations; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649695798     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2010)113     Document Type: Article

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