The cusp anomalous dimension at three loops and beyond

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Correa, Diego ^a   Henn, Johannes ^b   Maldacena, Juan ^b   Sever, Amit ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

't Hooft and Polyakov loops; 1 N Expansion; AdS CFT Correspondence; Scattering Amplitudes; Wilson

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861837938     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)098     Document Type: Article

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