On super form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills
Abstract
We compute form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills dual to massive Kaluza-Klein modes in supergravity. These are appropriate supersymmetrisations T_k of the scalar operators Tr(\phi^k) for any k, which for k=2 give the chiral part of the stress-tensor multiplet operator. Using harmonic superspace, we derive simple Ward identities for these form factors, which we then compute perturbatively at tree level and one loop. We propose a novel on-shell recursion relation which links form factors with different numbers of fields. Using this, we conjecture a general formula for the n-point MHV form factors of T_k for arbitrary k and n. Finally, we use supersymmetric generalised unitarity to derive compact expressions for all one-loop MHV form factors of T_k in terms of one-loop triangles and finite two-mass easy box functions.
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@article{arxiv.1402.1300,
title = {On super form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills},
author = {Brenda Penante and Bill Spence and Gabriele Travaglini and Congkao Wen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1300},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
29 pages, 11 figures, JHEP version; v3: references added, one typo fixed