Mellin amplitudes for dual conformal integrals

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Paulos, Miguel F ^a   Spradlin, Marcus ^b   Volovich, Anastasia ^b  

^a LPTHE   (France)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Conformal and W Symmetry; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Scattering Amplitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865265227     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)072     Document Type: Article

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