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The six-point remainder function to all loop orders in the multi-Regge limit

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present an all-orders formula for the six-point amplitude of planar maximally supersymmetric N=4 Yang-Mills theory in the leading-logarithmic approximation of multi-Regge kinematics. In the MHV helicity configuration, our results agree with an integral formula of Lipatov and Prygarin through at least 14 loops. A differential equation linking the MHV and NMHV helicity configurations has a natural action in the space of functions relevant to this problem---the single-valued harmonic polylogarithms introduced by Brown. These functions depend on a single complex variable and its conjugate, w and w*, which are quadratically related to the original kinematic variables. We investigate the all-orders formula in the near-collinear limit, which is approached as |w|->0. Up to power-suppressed terms, the resulting expansion may be organized by powers of log|w|. The leading term of this expansion agrees with the all-orders double-leading-logarithmic approximation of Bartels, Lipatov, and Prygarin. The explicit form for the sub-leading powers of log|w| is given in terms of modified Bessel functions.

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@article{arxiv.1209.5357,
  title  = {The six-point remainder function to all loop orders in the multi-Regge limit},
  author = {Jeffrey Pennington},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.5357},
  year   = {2015}
}

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25 pages, 1 figure

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