A two-loop octagon Wilson loop in N = 4 SYM

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Del Duca, Vittorio ^a,b   Duhr, Claude ^c   Smirnov, Vladimir A ^d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gauge symmetry; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649697306     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)015     Document Type: Article

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