Superconformal symmetry and two-loop amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Caron Huot, S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Duality in Gauge Field Theories; NLO Computations; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255187100     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2011)066     Document Type: Article

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