Jumpstarting the all-loop S-matrix of planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Caron Huot, S ^a   He, Song ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

'T Hooft and Polyakov loops; Duality in gauge field theories; Scattering amplitudes; Wilson

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864419053     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)174     Document Type: Review

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