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Determinants in self-dual N=4 SYM and twistor space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-26 v1

Abstract

We consider correlation functions of supersymmetrized determinant operators in self-dual super Yang-Mills (SYM). These provide a generating function for correlators of arbitrary single-trace half-BPS operators, including, for appropriate Grassmann components, the so-called loop integrand of the non-self-dual theory. We introduce a novel twistor space representation for determinant operators which makes contact with the recently studied m=2m=2 amplituhedron. By using matrix duality we rewrite the nn-point determinant correlator as a n×nn\times n matrix integral where the gauge group rank NcN_c is turned into a coupling. The correlators are rational functions whose denominators, in the planar limit, contain only ten-dimensional distances. Using this formulation, we verify a recent conjecture regarding the ten-dimensional symmetry of the components with maximal Grassmann degree and we obtain new formulas for correlators of Grassmann degree four.

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@article{arxiv.2304.12341,
  title  = {Determinants in self-dual N=4 SYM and twistor space},
  author = {Simon Caron-Huot and Frank Coronado and Beatrix Mühlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12341},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

53 pages, 13 figures

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