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This article reviews the recent progress in twistor approaches to Wilson loops, amplitudes and their duality for N=4 super Yang-Mills. Wilson loops and amplitudes are derived from first principles using the twistor action for maximally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tim Adamo , Mathew Bullimore , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

We work out the map between null polygonal hexagonal Wilson loops and spinning three point functions in large $N$ conformal gauge theories by mapping the variables describing the two different physical quantities and by working out the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Carlos Bercini , Vasco Gonçalves , Alexandre Homrich , Pedro Vieira

This thesis is concerned with the study of scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional conformal field theories, more particularly the N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We study this theory first at tree level by using twistor space techniques and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-09 C. Vergu

We provide a simple analytic formula for the two-loop six-point ratio function of planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory. This result extends the analytic knowledge of multi-loop six-point amplitudes beyond those with maximal helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Johannes M. Henn

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 J. M. Drummond , L. Ferro , E. Ragoucy

We study Wilson loops in the 4-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric quiver/M theory duality recently constructed by Gaiotto and Maldacena, that is conjectured to be dual to M2 branes on AdS_5\times S^4 fibered over \Sigma_2. We use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-26 Yang Zhou

We present a calculation of the rational terms in two-loop all-plus gluon amplitudes using $D$-dimensional unitarity. We use a conjecture of separability of the two loops, and then a simple generalization of one-loop $D$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 David A. Kosower , Sebastian Pögel

We study Feynman integrals and scattering amplitudes in ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills by exploiting the duality with null polygonal Wilson loops. Certain Feynman integrals, including one-loop and two-loop chiral pentagons, are given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Song He , Zhenjie Li , Qinglin Yang , Chi Zhang

The leading singularities of one-loop scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory are known to factorise into products of tree-level amplitudes, and this can be seen from a number of different perspectives e.g.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 James Drummond , Matthew Rochford , Rowan Wright

I describe some recent developments in the understanding of gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in the large-N_c limit. These amplitudes can be computed to high orders in the weak coupling expansion, and also now at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-07 Lance J. Dixon

Scattering amplitudes in superconformal field theories do not enjoy this symmetry, because the definition of asymptotic states involve a notion of infinity. Concentrating on planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills, we consider a generalization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Simon Caron-Huot

We propose a dual Wilson loop description for the MHV super form factors of half-BPS operators in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. In this description, the local operators are represented by on-shell states, made out of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Benjamin Basso , Alexander G. Tumanov

We conjecture a simple relationship between the one-loop maximally helicity violating gluon amplitudes of ordinary QCD (all helicities identical) and those of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (all but two helicities identical). Because the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

It is well-known that the expectation values of null polygonal Wilson loops computed in planar \(\mathcal{N}=4\) super Yang-Mills theory are dual to MHV amplitudes in that theory, and moreover that the duality can be extended to higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 James Drummond , Ömer Gürdoğan , Matthew Rochford , Rowan Wright

By using the gauge/gravity duality and the Maldacena prescription we compute the expectation values of the Wilson loops in noncommutative Yang-Mills (NCYM) theory in (3+1) dimensions. We consider both the time-like and the light-like Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-03 Somdeb Chakraborty , Najmul Haque , Shibaji Roy

We analyze the off-shell scattering amplitudes in the framework of the light-front perturbation theory. It is shown that the previously derived recursion relation between tree level off-shell amplitudes in this formalism actually resums…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 C. Cruz-Santiago , P. Kotko , A. Stasto

We compute the two-loop result for the null pentagonal Wilson loop with a Lagrangian insertion (normalized by the Wilson loop without insertion) in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This finite observable is closely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-04 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn

We detail the calculation of two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for pure Yang-Mills theory. The four dimensional unitarity methods and augmented recursion techniques we have developed, together with a knowledge of the singular structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 David C. Dunbar , John H. Godwin , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

We prove the convergence in probability of Wilson loops under the Yang-Mills measure on any closed, orientable surface of genus larger than two, for large unitary or special unitary groups. Our approach revisits and refines recent arguments…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Antoine Dahlqvist

We construct a regularization for light-like polygonal Wilson loops in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM, which matches them to the off-shell MHV gluon scattering amplitudes. Explicit calculations are performed for the 1-loop four gluon case. The off light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Harald Dorn , Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann