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Form-factors of the sausage model obtained with bootstrap fusion from sine-Gordon theory
We continue the investigation of massive integrable models by means of the
bootstrap fusion procedure, started in our previous work on O(3) nonlinear
sigma model. Using the analogy with SU(2) Thirring model and the O(3) nonlinear
sigma model we prove a similar relation between sine-Gordon theory and a
one-parameter deformation of the O(3) sigma model, the sausage model. This
allows us to write down a free field representation for the
Zamolodchikov-Faddeev algebra of the sausage model and to construct an integral
representation for the generating functions of form-factors in this theory. We
also clear up the origin of the singularities in the bootstrap construction and
the reason for the problem with the kinematical poles.Comment: 16 pages, revtex; references added, some typos corrected. Accepted
for publication in Physical Review
Free field representation for the O(3) nonlinear sigma model and bootstrap fusion
The possibility of the application of the free field representation developed
by Lukyanov for massive integrable models is investigated in the context of the
O(3) sigma model. We use the bootstrap fusion procedure to construct a free
field representation for the O(3) Zamolodchikov- Faddeev algebra and to write
down a representation for the solutions of the form-factor equations which is
similar to the ones obtained previously for the sine-Gordon and SU(2) Thirring
models. We discuss also the possibility of developing further this
representation for the O(3) model and comment on the extension to other
integrable field theories.Comment: 14 pages, latex, revtex v3.0 macro package, no figures Accepted for
publication in Phys. Rev.
Explicit computation of Drinfeld associator in the case of the fundamental representation of gl(N)
We solve the regularized Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation and find an explicit
expression for the Drinfeld associator. We restrict to the case of the
fundamental representation of . Several tests of the results are
presented. It can be explicitly seen that components of this solution for the
associator coincide with certain components of WZW conformal block for primary
fields. We introduce the symmetrized version of the Drinfeld associator by
dropping the odd terms. The symmetrized associator gives the same knot
invariants, but has a simpler structure and is fully characterized by one
symmetric function which we call the Drinfeld prepotential.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures; several flaws indicated by referees correcte
Analytic Results for Massless Three-Loop Form Factors
We evaluate, exactly in d, the master integrals contributing to massless
three-loop QCD form factors. The calculation is based on a combination of a
method recently suggested by one of the authors (R.L.) with other techniques:
sector decomposition implemented in FIESTA, the method of Mellin--Barnes
representation, and the PSLQ algorithm. Using our results for the master
integrals we obtain analytical expressions for two missing constants in the
ep-expansion of the two most complicated master integrals and present the form
factors in a completely analytic form.Comment: minor revisions, to appear in JHE
Iteration of Planar Amplitudes in Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory at Three Loops and Beyond
We compute the leading-color (planar) three-loop four-point amplitude of N=4
supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions, as a Laurent
expansion about epsilon = 0 including the finite terms. The amplitude was
constructed previously via the unitarity method, in terms of two Feynman loop
integrals, one of which has been evaluated already. Here we use the
Mellin-Barnes integration technique to evaluate the Laurent expansion of the
second integral. Strikingly, the amplitude is expressible, through the finite
terms, in terms of the corresponding one- and two-loop amplitudes, which
provides strong evidence for a previous conjecture that higher-loop planar N =
4 amplitudes have an iterative structure. The infrared singularities of the
amplitude agree with the predictions of Sterman and Tejeda-Yeomans based on
resummation. Based on the four-point result and the exponentiation of infrared
singularities, we give an exponentiated ansatz for the maximally
helicity-violating n-point amplitudes to all loop orders. The 1/epsilon^2 pole
in the four-point amplitude determines the soft, or cusp, anomalous dimension
at three loops in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The result confirms a
prediction by Kotikov, Lipatov, Onishchenko and Velizhanin, which utilizes the
leading-twist anomalous dimensions in QCD computed by Moch, Vermaseren and
Vogt. Following similar logic, we are able to predict a term in the three-loop
quark and gluon form factors in QCD.Comment: 54 pages, 7 figures. v2: Added references, a few additional words
about large spin limit of anomalous dimensions. v3: Expanded Sect. IV.A on
multiloop ansatz; remark that form-factor prediction is now confirmed by
other work; minor typos correcte
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