Loop lessons from Wilson loops in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Anastasiou, Charalampos ^a   Banfi, Andrea ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extended supersymmetry; NLO computations; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Supersymmetry and duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053096433     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2011)064     Document Type: Article

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