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Amplitudes and MHV Diagrams

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Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in Twistor Space

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Scattering amplitudes are fundamental and remarkably rich observables in quantum field theory. Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories are often much simpler than one expects from a typical Feynman diagram expansion.

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Notes

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    In Eqs. (3.27) and (3.28) it is understood that the the supertrace component of the generators are removed—see discussion in Sect. 2.2.1.

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Bullimore, M.R. (2014). Amplitudes and MHV Diagrams. In: Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in Twistor Space. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00909-4_3

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