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Cluster adjacency and the four-loop NMHV heptagon

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-04-16 v2

Abstract

We exploit the recently described property of cluster adjacency for scattering amplitudes in planar N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory to construct the symbol of the four-loop NMHV heptagon amplitude. We use a manifestly cluster adjacent ansatz and describe how the parameters of this ansatz are determined using simple physical consistency requirements. We then specialise our answer for the amplitude to the multi-Regge limit, finding agreement with previously available results up to the next-to-leading logarithm, and obtaining new predictions up to (next-to)3^3-leading-logarithmic accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.1812.04640,
  title  = {Cluster adjacency and the four-loop NMHV heptagon},
  author = {James Drummond and Jack Foster and Ömer Gürdoğan and Georgios Papathanasiou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04640},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

29 pages; v2: published version, typos corrected, symbol bases up to weight 6 included as ancillary files

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