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Iterative Structure Within The Five-Particle Two-Loop Amplitude

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We find an unexpected iterative structure within the two-loop five-gluon amplitude in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Specifically, we show that a subset of diagrams contributing to the full amplitude, including a two-loop pentagon-box integral with nontrivial dependence on five kinematical variables, satisfies an iterative relation in terms of one-loop scalar box diagrams. The implications of this result for the possible iterative structure of the full two-loop amplitude are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0602228,
  title  = {Iterative Structure Within The Five-Particle Two-Loop Amplitude},
  author = {Freddy Cachazo and Marcus Spradlin and Anastasia Volovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0602228},
  year   = {2008}
}

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22 pages, revtex4