Review of AdS/CFT Integrability, Chapter V.1: Scattering Amplitudes: A Brief Introduction

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 455-479

  Roiban, Radu ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gauge theories; recursion relations; scattering amplitudes; symmetry; unitarity

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EID: 84856226478     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-011-0517-6     Document Type: Review

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