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Wilson lines, Grassmannians and Gauge Invariant Off-shell Amplitudes in N=4 SYM

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-04-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM. For the off-shell amplitudes with one leg off-shell we present a conjecture for their Grassmannian integral representation in spinor helicity, twistor and momentum twistor parameterizations. The presented conjecture is successfully checked against BCFW results for MHVn_n, NMHV4_4 and NMHV5_5 off-shell amplitudes. We have also verified that our Grassmannian integral representation correctly reproduces soft (on-shell) limit for the off-shell gluon momentum. It is shown that the (deformed) off-shell amplitude expressions could be also obtained using quantum inverse scattering method for auxiliary gl(44)gl(4|4) super spin chain.

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@article{arxiv.1607.02320,
  title  = {Wilson lines, Grassmannians and Gauge Invariant Off-shell Amplitudes in N=4 SYM},
  author = {L. V. Bork and A. I. Onishchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02320},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

55 pages, 7 figures; v2: minor changes, typos corrected, references added