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    Ambitwistor strings and reggeon amplitudes in N=4 SYM

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    We consider the description of reggeon amplitudes (Wilson lines form factors) in N=4 SYM within the framework of four dimensional ambitwistor string theory. The latter is used to derive scattering equations representation for reggeon amplitudes with multiple reggeized gluons present. It is shown, that corresponding tree-level string correlation function correctly reproduces previously obtained Grassmannian integral representation of reggeon amplitudes in N=4 SYM.Comment: 18 page

    Grassmannian Integral for General Gauge Invariant Off-shell Amplitudes in N=4 SYM

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    In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM with arbitrary number of off-shell gluons or equivalently Wilson line operator insertions. We make a conjecture for the Grassmannian integral representation for such objects and verify our conjecture on several examples. It is remarkable that in our formulation one can consider situation when on-shell particles are not present at all, i.e. we have Grassmannian integral representation for purely off-shell object. In addition we show that off-shell amplitude with arbitrary number of off-shell gluons could be also obtained using quantum inverse scattering method for auxiliary gl(44)\mathfrak{gl}(4|4) super spin chain.Comment: 38 pages, 9 figures; v4: typos corrected, comment in section 3.2 adde

    Four dimensional ambitwistor strings and form factors of local and Wilson line operators

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    We consider the description of form factors of local and Wilson line operators (reggeon amplitudes) in N=4 SYM within the framework of four dimensional ambitwistor string theory. We present the explicit expressions for string composite operators corresponding to stress-tensor operator supermultiplet and Wilson line operator insertion. It is shown, that corresponding tree-level string correlation functions correctly reproduce previously obtained Grassmannian integral representations. As by product we derive four dimensional tree-level scattering equations representations for the mentioned form factors and formulate a simple gluing procedure used to relate operator form factors with on-shell amplitudes.Comment: 46 pages, 3 figures; v3: multiple changes in the text, typos corrected, references adde
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