All-loop singularities of scattering amplitudes in massless planar theories
Abstract
In massless quantum field theories the Landau equations are invariant under graph operations familiar from the theory of electrical circuits. Using a theorem on the - reducibility of planar circuits we prove that the set of first-type Landau singularities of an -particle scattering amplitude in any massless planar theory, in any spacetime dimension , at any finite loop order in perturbation theory, is a subset of those of a certain -particle -loop "ziggurat" graph. We determine this singularity locus explicitly for and and find that it corresponds precisely to the vanishing of the symbol letters familiar from the hexagon bootstrap in SYM theory. Further implications for SYM theory are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1805.11617,
title = {All-loop singularities of scattering amplitudes in massless planar theories},
author = {Igor Prlina and Marcus Spradlin and Stefan Stanojevic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.11617},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor improvements and clarifications, including an expanded section VIII