174 research outputs found
Duality between Wilson Loops and Scattering Amplitudes
We summarise the status of an intriguing new duality between planar maximally
helicity violating scattering amplitudes and light-like Wilson loops in N=4
super Yang-Mills. In particular, we focus on the role played by (dual)
conformal symmetry, which is made predictive by deriving anomalous conformal
Ward identities for the Wilson loops. Assuming the duality, the conformal
symmetry of the dual Wilson loops becomes an unexpected new symmetry of
scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM.Comment: 10 pages; Presented at the 48th Cracow School of Theoretical Physics
"Aspects of Duality"; Acknowledgement adde
Four-gluon scattering at three loops, infrared structure and Regge limit
We compute the three-loop four-gluon scattering amplitude in maximally
supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, including its full color dependence. Our
result is the first complete computation of a non-planar four-particle
scattering amplitude to three loops in four-dimensional gauge theory and
consequently provides highly non-trivial data for the study of non-planar
scattering amplitudes. We present the amplitude as a Laurent expansion in the
dimensional regulator to finite order, with coefficients composed of harmonic
poly-logarithms of uniform transcendental weight, and simple rational
prefactors. Our computation provides an independent check of a recent result
for three-loop corrections to the soft anomalous dimension matrix that predicts
the general infrared singularity structure of massless gauge theory scattering
amplitudes. Taking the Regge limit of our result, we determine the three-loop
gluon Regge trajectory. We also find agreement with very recent predictions for
sub-leading logarithms
On the Casimir scaling violation in the cusp anomalous dimension at small angle
We compute the four-loop contribution proportional to the quartic
Casimir of the QCD cusp anomalous dimension as an expansion for small cusp
angle . This piece is gauge invariant, violates Casimir scaling, and
first appears at four loops. It requires the evaluation of genuine non-planar
four-loop Feynman integrals. We present results up to .
One motivation for our calculation is to probe a recent conjecture on the
all-order structure of the cusp anomalous dimension. As a byproduct we obtain
the four-loop HQET wave function anomalous dimension for this color structure.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, 1 ancillary file; v2: journal versio
Solvable Relativistic Hydrogenlike System in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
The classical Kepler problem, as well as its quantum mechanical version, the
Hydrogen atom, enjoy a well-known hidden symmetry, the conservation of the
Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector, which makes these problems superintegrable. Is there
a relativistic quantum field theory extension that preserves this symmetry? In
this Letter we show that the answer is positive: in the non-relativistic limit,
we identify the dual conformal symmetry of planar super
Yang-Mills with the well-known symmetries of the Hydrogen atom. We point out
that the dual conformal symmetry offers a novel way to compute the spectrum of
bound states of massive bosons in the theory. We perform nontrivial tests
of this setup at weak and strong coupling, and comment on the possible
extension to arbitrary values of the coupling.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Clarifications added; published versio
Bootstrapping pentagon functions
In PRL 116 (2016) no.6, 062001, the space of planar pentagon functions that
describes all two-loop on-shell five-particle scattering amplitudes was
introduced. In the present paper we present a natural extension of this space
to non-planar pentagon functions. This provides the basis for our pentagon
bootstrap program. We classify the relevant functions up to weight four, which
is relevant for two-loop scattering amplitudes. We constrain the first entry of
the symbol of the functions using information on branch cuts. Drawing on an
analogy from the planar case, we introduce a conjectural second-entry condition
on the symbol. We then show that the information on the function space, when
complemented with some additional insights, can be used to efficiently
bootstrap individual Feynman integrals. The extra information is read off of
Mellin-Barnes representations of the integrals, either by evaluating simple
asymptotic limits, or by taking discontinuities in the kinematic variables. We
use this method to evaluate the symbols of two non-trivial non-planar
five-particle integrals, up to and including the finite part.Comment: 24 pages + 3 pages of appendices, 2 figures, 3 tables, 4 ancillary
files, added references and corrected typos, published versio
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