Form factors in N = 4 super Yang-Mills and periodic Wilson loops

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Brandhuber, Andreas ^a   Spence, Bill ^a   Travaglini, Gabriele ^a   Yang, Gang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Extended supersymmetry; Gauge symmetry; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053109863     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)134     Document Type: Article

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