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On Geometric Scaling of Light-Like Wilson Polygons: Higher Orders in $\alpha_s$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-06-17 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We address the scaling behaviour of contour-shape-dependent ultra-violet singularities of the light-like cusped Wilson loops in Yang-Mills and N=4{\cal N} = 4 super-Yang-Mills theories in the higher orders of the perturbative expansion. We give the simple arguments to support the idea that identifying of a special type of non-local infinitesimal shape variations of the light-like Wilson polygons with the Fr\'echet differentials results in the combined geometric and renormalization-group evolution equation, which is applicable beyond the leading order exponentiated Wilson loops.

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@article{arxiv.1404.6713,
  title  = {On Geometric Scaling of Light-Like Wilson Polygons: Higher Orders in $\alpha_s$},
  author = {T. Mertens and I. Cherednikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.6713},
  year   = {2014}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures