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Heptagon Functions and Seven-Gluon Amplitudes in Multi-Regge Kinematics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-19 v2

Abstract

We compute all 252\to5 gluon scattering amplitudes in planar N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in the multi-Regge limit that is sensitive to the non-trivial ("long") Regge cut. We provide the amplitudes through four loops and to all logarithmic accuracy at leading power, in terms of single-valued multiple polylogarithms of two variables. To obtain these results, we leverage the function-level results for the amplitudes in the Steinmann cluster bootstrap. To high powers in the series expansion in the two variables, our results agree with the recently conjectured all-order central emission vertex used in the Fourier-Mellin representation of amplitudes in multi-Regge kinematics. Our results therefore provide a resummation of the Fourier-Mellin residues into single-valued polylogarithms, and constitute an important cross-check between the bootstrap approach and the all-orders multi-Regge proposal.

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@article{arxiv.2110.11388,
  title  = {Heptagon Functions and Seven-Gluon Amplitudes in Multi-Regge Kinematics},
  author = {Lance J. Dixon and Yu-Ting Liu and Julian Miczajka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.11388},
  year   = {2022}
}

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33 pages, 3 figures, added details and fixed refs