Evidence for a nonplanar amplituhedron

Journal of High Energy Physics - Tập 2016 Số 6 - 2016
Zvi Bern1, Enrico Herrmann2, Sean Litsey1, James Stankowicz1, Jaroslav Trnka2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, U.S.A.
2Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, U.S.A.

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