Local integrals for planar scattering amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Arkani Hamed, N ^a   Bourjaily, J ^a,b   Cachazo, F ^c   Trnka, J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Duality in gauge field theories; Scattering amplitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864210265     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2012)125     Document Type: Article

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