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Multi-Regge Limit of the Two-Loop Five-Point Amplitudes in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ Super Yang-Mills and $\mathcal{N} = 8$ Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-12-02 v2

Abstract

In previous work, the two-loop five-point amplitudes in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory and N=8\mathcal{N}=8 supergravity were computed at symbol level. In this paper, we compute the full functional form. The amplitudes are assembled and simplified using the analytic expressions of the two-loop pentagon integrals in the physical scattering region. We provide the explicit functional expressions, and a numerical reference point in the scattering region. We then calculate the multi-Regge limit of both amplitudes. The result is written in terms of an explicit transcendental function basis. For certain non-planar colour structures of the N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills amplitude, we perform an independent calculation based on the BFKL effective theory. We find perfect agreement. We comment on the analytic properties of the amplitudes.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2003.03120,
  title  = {Multi-Regge Limit of the Two-Loop Five-Point Amplitudes in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ Super Yang-Mills and $\mathcal{N} = 8$ Supergravity},
  author = {Simon Caron-Huot and Dmitry Chicherin and Johannes Henn and Yang Zhang and Simone Zoia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.03120},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

60 pages, 4 figures; v2: typos corrected, functional expressions of the hard functions provided