Ultra-Violet Infinities and Counterterms in Higher Dimensional Yang-Mills
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In this letter we investigate the ultra-violet behaviour of four-point one-loop gluon amplitudes in dimensions greater than four coupled to various particles types. We discuss the structure of the counterterms and their inherent symmetries. 1Research supported by PPARC
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