Single-valued harmonic polylogarithms and the multi-Regge limit

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Dixon, Lance J ^a   Duhr, Claude ^b   Pennington, Jeffrey ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extended Supersymmetry; Scattering amplitudes; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868277972     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)074     Document Type: Article

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