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Handling Handles. Part II. Stratification and Data Analysis

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-06-05 v2

Abstract

In a previous work, we proposed an integrability setup for computing non-planar corrections to correlation functions in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory at any value of the coupling constant. The procedure consists of drawing all possible tree-level graphs on a Riemann surface of given genus, completing each graph to a triangulation, inserting a hexagon form factor into each face, and summing over a complete set of states on each edge of the triangulation. The summation over graphs can be interpreted as a quantization of the string moduli space integration. The quantization requires a careful treatment of the moduli space boundaries, which is realized by subtracting degenerate Riemann surfaces; this procedure is called stratification. In this work, we precisely formulate our proposal and perform several perturbative checks. These checks require hitherto unknown multi-particle mirror contributions at one loop, which we also compute.

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@article{arxiv.1809.09145,
  title  = {Handling Handles. Part II. Stratification and Data Analysis},
  author = {Till Bargheer and Joao Caetano and Thiago Fleury and Shota Komatsu and Pedro Vieira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09145},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

99 pages, 261 figures, comments welcome; v2: minor improvements, updated references (published version)

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