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Dual Conformal Properties of Six-Dimensional Maximal Super Yang-Mills Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-02-03 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate that the tree-level amplitudes of maximal super-Yang-Mills theory in six dimensions, when stripped of their overall momentum and supermomentum delta functions, are covariant with respect to the six-dimensional dual conformal group. Using the generalized unitarity method, we demonstrate that this property is also present for loop amplitudes. Since the six-dimensional amplitudes can be interpreted as massive four-dimensional ones, this implies that the six-dimensional symmetry is also present in the massively regulated four-dimensional maximal super-Yang-Mills amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.1010.5874,
  title  = {Dual Conformal Properties of Six-Dimensional Maximal Super Yang-Mills Amplitudes},
  author = {Tristan Dennen and Yu-tin Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5874},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

20 pages, 3 figures, minor clarification, references updated