Twistor-space recursive formulation of gauge-theory amplitudes

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Bena, Iosif ^a   Bern, Zvi ^a   Kosower, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; GLUON; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPACE;

EID: 84927721771     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.045008     Document Type: Article

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