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Two-Loop Iteration of Five-Point N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We confirm by explicit computation the conjectured all-orders iteration of planar maximally supersymmetric N=4 Yang-Mills theory in the nontrivial case of five-point two-loop amplitudes. We compute the required unitarity cuts of the integrand and evaluate the resulting integrals numerically using a Mellin--Barnes representation and the automated package of ref.~[1]. This confirmation of the iteration relation provides further evidence suggesting that N=4 gauge theory is solvable.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0604074,
  title  = {Two-Loop Iteration of Five-Point N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Amplitudes},
  author = {Z. Bern and M. Czakon and D. A. Kosower and R. Roiban and V. A. Smirnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0604074},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures