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Light-cone limits of large rectangular fishnets

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-05 v5

Abstract

Basso-Dixon integrals evaluate rectangular fishnets -- Feynman graphs with massless scalar propagators which form a m×nm\times n rectangular grid -- which arise in certain one-trace four-point correlators in the `fishnet' limit of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM. Recently, Basso {\it et al} explored the thermodynamical limit mm\to\infty with fixed aspect ratio n/mn/m of a rectangular fishnet and showed that in general the dependence on the coordinates of the four operators is erased, but it reappears in a scaling limit with two of the operators getting close in a controlled way. In this note I investigate the most general double scaling limit which describes the thermodynamics when one of two pairs of operators become nearly light-like. In this double scaling limit, the rectangular fishnet depends on both coordinate cross ratios. I show that all singular limits of the fishnet can be attained within the double scaling limit, including the null limit with the four points approaching the cusps of a null square. A direct evaluation of the fishnet in the null limit is presented any mm and nn.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2211.15056,
  title  = {Light-cone limits of large rectangular fishnets},
  author = {Ivan Kostov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.15056},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

24 pages, 5 figures, references added

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