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Protected and uniformly transcendental

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-06-13 v1

Abstract

We show that the two-point function of protected bi-scalar operators in N=4{\cal N}=4 SYM evaluated in dimensional regularization exhibits a uniform degree of transcendentality up to three-loop order. We conjecture that this property holds for the whole perturbative series and leverage the explicit results to postulate a prediction for the leading, order ϵ\epsilon, correction to all loop orders. We also consider the soft limit of three-point functions of such operators in momentum space and point out a simple and surprising perturbative relation to two-point functions, which we also extrapolate to all loop orders.

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@article{arxiv.2306.06239,
  title  = {Protected and uniformly transcendental},
  author = {Marco S. Bianchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06239},
  year   = {2023}
}
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