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Four dimensional ambitwistor strings and form factors of local and Wilson line operators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-06-27 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider the description of form factors of local and Wilson line operators (reggeon amplitudes) in N=4 SYM within the framework of four dimensional ambitwistor string theory. We present the explicit expressions for string composite operators corresponding to stress-tensor operator supermultiplet and Wilson line operator insertion. It is shown, that corresponding tree-level string correlation functions correctly reproduce previously obtained Grassmannian integral representations. As by product we derive four dimensional tree-level scattering equations representations for the mentioned form factors and formulate a simple gluing procedure used to relate operator form factors with on-shell amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.1704.04758,
  title  = {Four dimensional ambitwistor strings and form factors of local and Wilson line operators},
  author = {L. V. Bork and A. I. Onishchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04758},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

46 pages, 3 figures; v3: multiple changes in the text, typos corrected, references added