Factorization properties of soft graviton amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  White, Chris D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Models of quantum gravity; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053162961     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)060     Document Type: Article

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