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Grassmannians and form factors with $q^2=0$ in N=4 SYM theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-02-01 v2

Abstract

We consider tree level form factors of operators from stress tensor operator supermultiplet with light-like operator momentum q2=0q^2=0. We present a conjecture for the Grassmannian integral representation both for these tree level form factors as well as for leading singularities of their loop counterparts. The presented conjecture was successfully checked by reproducing several known answers in \mboxMHV\mbox{MHV} and \mboxNk2\mboxMHV\mbox{N}^{k-2}\mbox{MHV}, k3k\geq3 sectors together with appropriate soft limits. We also discuss the cancellation of spurious poles and relations between different BCFW representations for such form factors on simple examples.

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@article{arxiv.1607.00503,
  title  = {Grassmannians and form factors with $q^2=0$ in N=4 SYM theory},
  author = {L. V. Bork and A. I. Onishchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00503},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

46 pages, 16 figures; v2: minor changes, typos corrected, references added