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Two-loop MHV Form Factors from the Periodic Wilson Loop

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-20 v2

Abstract

We discuss how to compute maximal-helicity-violating (MHV) form factors for the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet from periodic light-like polygon Wilson loops in planar N=4\mathcal N=4 super Yang-Mills theory beyond the one-loop level. We show that the periodicity imposes path ordering on points on different edges, which explains the appearance of square roots coming from non-planar Feynman diagrams. Taking such diagrams into account, we provide the integrand of the two-loop nn-particle MHV form factor, compute all diagrams, prove the cancellation of divergences and finally compute the two-loop 5-particle and 6-particle form factors as examples.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2412.17974,
  title  = {Two-loop MHV Form Factors from the Periodic Wilson Loop},
  author = {Zhenjie Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17974},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

33 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:47:25.691Z