Lectures on twistor string theory and perturbative Yang-Mills theory

Proceedings of Science

Volumn 19, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Cachazo, Freddy ^a   Svrček, Peter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; GRAVITY WAVES; QUANTUM THEORY; STRING THEORY;

GAUGE THEORY; PERTURBATION THEORY; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; TWISTOR; YANG-MILLS THEORY;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 85056806715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18248039     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.22323/1.019.0004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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