Motivic amplitudes and cluster coordinates

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Golden, J K ^a   Goncharov, A B ^b   Spradlin, M ^a,c   Vergu, C ^d   Volovich, A ^a,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Scattering Amplitudes; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893834013     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)091     Document Type: Article

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