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Landau Analysis of One-Cycle Negative Geometries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-07 v2

Abstract

We use geometric Landau analysis to determine the singularity structure of four-point, one-cycle negative geometries in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, which represent certain contributions to the logarithm of the four-point amplitude or equivalently the normalized quadrangular Wilson loop with a Lagrangian insertion. By analyzing the relevant Landau diagrams recursively, we prove that this quantity has singularities only at z=1,0z=-1,0 and \infty to all loop orders. This represents a first step towards obtaining a non-perturbative resummation for this quantity at next-to-leading order in the expansion over cycles.

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@article{arxiv.2604.22683,
  title  = {Landau Analysis of One-Cycle Negative Geometries},
  author = {Shruti Paranjape and Marcos Skowronek and Marcus Spradlin and Anastasia Volovich and He-Chen Weng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.22683},
  year   = {2026}
}

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25 pages, 4 figures