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One-loop Gluon Amplitudes in AdS

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-14 v3

Abstract

We initiate the study of one-loop gluon amplitudes in AdS space. These amplitudes were recently computed at tree level for a variety of backgrounds of the form AdSd+1×S3AdS_{d+1} \times S^3. For concreteness, we compute the one-loop correction to the massless gluon amplitude on AdS5×S3AdS_5\times S^3, which corresponds to the four-point correlator of the flavor current multiplet in the dual 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 SCFT. This requires solving a mixing problem that involves tree-level amplitudes of arbitrarily massive Kaluza-Klein modes. The final answer has the same color structure as in flat space but the dependence on Mandelstam variables is more complicated, with logarithms replaced by polygamma functions.

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@article{arxiv.2110.09861,
  title  = {One-loop Gluon Amplitudes in AdS},
  author = {Luis F. Alday and Agnese Bissi and Xinan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09861},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v1: 37 pages, 5 figures, v2: minor improvements, published version, v3: a typo in (2.8) corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-24T07:00:10.587Z