The three-loop form factor in N = 4 super Yang-Mills

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Gehrmann, Thomas ^a,b   Henn, Johannes M ^b,c,d   Huber, Tobias ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Scattering Amplitudes; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859609147     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2012)101     Document Type: Article

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