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The contribution of scalars to ${\cal N}=4$ SYM amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-03-01 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We analyse the contribution of 2n2n scalars to the Operator Product Expansion series for MHV gluon scattering amplitudes/polygonal Wilson loops in planar N=4{\cal N}=4 SYM. Hence, we sum up on 2n2n for large coupling λ\lambda: the logarithm of the amplitude is proportional to λ\sqrt{\lambda}, thus competing, unexpectedly, with the famous classical contribution. We give explicit expressions for the first terms at large λ\lambda in case of two and four scalars. For finalising this analysis, we find profitable an explicit computation of the 2n2n-scalar term at any coupling by means of Young tableaux, paralleling, under certain aspects, the Nekrasov-Okounkov expressions for N=2\mathcal N =2 SYM prepotential.

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@article{arxiv.1607.02084,
  title  = {The contribution of scalars to ${\cal N}=4$ SYM amplitudes},
  author = {Alfredo Bonini and Davide Fioravanti and Simone Piscaglia and Marco Rossi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02084},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

12 pages, typos corrected, final comments and formula (implicit in the previous version) added, published version (Phys. Rev. D)