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We present a constructive derivation of holographic four-point correlators of arbitrary half-BPS operators for all maximally supersymmetric conformal field theories in $d>2$. This includes holographic correlators in 3d ${\cal N}=8$ ABJM…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-24 Luis F. Alday , Xinan Zhou

We consider a full Leigh-Strassler deformation of the ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory and look for conditions under which the theory would be conformally invariant and finite. Applying the algorithm of perturbative adjustments of the couplings we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 L. V. Bork , D. I. Kazakov , G. S. Vartanov , A. V. Zhiboedov

The quantum effects encapsulated in loop corrections are crucial in quantum field theory for a wide variety of formal and phenomenological applications. In this article we propose and check a definition of the so-called single cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-18 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo

We perform extensive three-loop tests of the hexagon bootstrap approach for structure constants in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. We focus on correlators involving two BPS operators and one non-BPS operator in the so-called $SL(2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-07 Benjamin Basso , Vasco Goncalves , Shota Komatsu , Pedro Vieira

We present a new, explicit formula for all tree-level amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The formula is written as a certain contour integral of the connected prescription of Witten's twistor string, expressed in link variables. A very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Jaroslav Trnka , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We compute the even part of the two-loop seven-point planar MHV amplitude in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We find that the even part is expressed in terms of conformal integrals with simple rational coefficients. We also compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 C. Vergu

We compute the six-particle maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) and next-to-MHV (NMHV) amplitudes in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory through seven loops and six loops, respectively, as an application of the extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Simon Caron-Huot , Lance J. Dixon , Falko Dulat , Matt von Hippel , Andrew J. McLeod , Georgios Papathanasiou

This paper presents a new formula which is conjectured to yield all tree amplitudes in N=8 supergravity. The amplitudes are described in terms of higher degree rational maps to twistor space. The resulting expression has manifest N=8…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-24 Freddy Cachazo , David Skinner

We analyse the contribution of $2n$ scalars to the Operator Product Expansion series for MHV gluon scattering amplitudes/polygonal Wilson loops in planar ${\cal N}=4$ SYM. Hence, we sum up on $2n$ for large coupling $\lambda$: the logarithm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Alfredo Bonini , Davide Fioravanti , Simone Piscaglia , Marco Rossi

The free energy of a field theory can be considered as a functional of the free correlation function. As such it obeys a nonlinear functional differential equation which can be turned into a recursion relation. This is solved order by order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Hagen Kleinert , Axel Pelster , Boris Kastening , M. Bachmann

The action of inverse soft factors on scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM is shown to take a remarkably simple form in momentum twistor space. This is used to identify individual residues of the grassmannian with primitive leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-16 Mathew Bullimore

We obtain a color-kinematics-dual representation of the two-loop four-vector amplitude a general renormalizable massless $\mathcal{N}=1$ SYM theory, including internal matter as chiral supermultiplets. The integrand is constructed to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-29 Henrik Johansson , Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull , Bram Verbeek

We construct the most general composite operators of N = 4 SYM in Lorentz harmonic chiral ($\approx$ twistor) superspace. The operators are built from the SYM supercurvature which is nonpolynomial in the chiral gauge prepotentials. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Dmitry Chicherin , Emery Sokatchev

We compute the complete non-planar integrand for the correlation function of four lightest scalar operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at five-loop order. This is equivalent to the super-correlator of nine stress-tensor multiplets in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Till Bargheer , Albert Bekov

A numerical approach to compute tensor integrals in one-loop calculations is presented. The algorithm is based on a recursion relation which allows to express high rank tensor integrals as a function of lower rank ones. At each level of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 F. del Aguila , R. Pittau

Recently, tree-level recursion relations for scattering amplitudes of gluons in Yang-Mills theory have been derived. In this note we propose a generalization of the recursion relations to tree-level scattering amplitudes of gravitons. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Freddy Cachazo , Peter Svrcek

We initiate a systematic investigation of Mellin amplitudes of Witten diagrams to all loop levels, by introducing integral recursion relations among them. Focusing on the scalar effective theories in AdS with the simplest type of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-01 Ellis Ye Yuan

We introduce a method to extract the symbol of the coefficient of $(2\pi i)^2$ of MHV remainder functions in planar N=4 Super Yang-Mills in multi-Regge kinematics region directly from the symbol in full kinematics. At two loops this symbol…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Brenda Penante

Prompted by recent progress in the study of N=4 super Yang-Mills amplitudes, and evidence that similar approaches might be relevant to N=8 supergravity, we investigate possible iterative structures and applications of Wilson loop techniques…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Adele Nasti , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We consider higher-point generalizations of the "octagon" large-charge four-point function in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. These n-point polygon correlators are defined as ten-dimensional null limits of generating functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Till Bargheer , Albert Bekov , Carlos Bercini , Frank Coronado