Amplitudes of 3D and 6D maximal superconformal theories in supertwistor space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Yu Tin ^a   Lipstein, Arthur E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal field models in string theory; Superspaces; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649698874     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2010)007     Document Type: Article

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