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Wilson Loop Form Factors: A New Duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-12-16 v1

Abstract

We find a new duality for form factors of lightlike Wilson loops in planar N=4\mathcal N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. The duality maps a form factor involving an nn-sided lightlike polygonal super-Wilson loop together with mm external on-shell states, to the same type of object but with the edges of the Wilson loop and the external states swapping roles. This relation can essentially be seen graphically in Lorentz harmonic chiral (LHC) superspace where it is equivalent to planar graph duality. However there are some crucial subtleties with the cancellation of spurious poles due to the gauge fixing. They are resolved by finding the correct formulation of the Wilson loop and by careful analytic continuation from Minkowski to Euclidean space. We illustrate all of these subtleties explicitly in the simplest non-trivial NMHV-like case.

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@article{arxiv.1612.05197,
  title  = {Wilson Loop Form Factors: A New Duality},
  author = {Dmitry Chicherin and Paul Heslop and Gregory P. Korchemsky and Emery Sokatchev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05197},
  year   = {2016}
}

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38 pages, 4 figures

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