Review of AdS/CFT Integrability, Chapter V.2: Dual Superconformal Symmetry

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 481-505

  Drummond, James M ^a,b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

extended symmetries; gauge theories; scattering amplitudes; Wilson loops

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856216656     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-011-0519-4     Document Type: Review

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