English

Nonsinglet pentagons and NMHV amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-12-09 v3

Abstract

Scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric gauge theory receive a dual description in terms of the expectation value of the super Wilson loop stretched on a null polygonal contour. This makes the analysis amenable to nonperturbative techniques. Presently, we elaborate on a refined form of the operator product expansion in terms of pentagon transitions to compute twist-two contributions to NMHV amplitudes. To start with, we provide a novel derivation of scattering matrices starting from Baxter equations for flux-tube excitations propagating on magnon background. We propose bootstrap equations obeyed by pentagon form factors with nonsinglet quantum numbers with respected to the R-symmetry group and provide solutions to them to all orders in 't Hooft coupling. These are then successfully confronted against available perturbative calculations for NMHV amplitudes to three-loop order.

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@article{arxiv.1407.2853,
  title  = {Nonsinglet pentagons and NMHV amplitudes},
  author = {A. V. Belitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2853},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

58 pages, 5 figures; typos fixed, four-loop checks added to ancillary file

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