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Yangian symmetry of light-like Wilson loops

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-20 v2

Abstract

We show that a certain class of light-like Wilson loops exhibits a Yangian symmetry at one loop, or equivalently, in an Abelian theory. The Wilson loops we discuss are equivalent to one-loop MHV amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in a certain kinematical regime. The fact that we find a Yangian symmetry constraining their functional form can be thought of as the effect of the original conformal symmetry associated to the scattering amplitudes in the N=4 theory.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4264,
  title  = {Yangian symmetry of light-like Wilson loops},
  author = {J. M. Drummond and L. Ferro and E. Ragoucy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4264},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 5 figures