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The planar scattering amplitudes of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang--Mills theory display symmetries and structures which underlie their relatively simple analytic properties such as having only logarithmic singularities and no poles at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Zvi Bern , Michael Enciso , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mao Zeng

Infrared divergences in scattering amplitudes arise when a loop momentum $\ell$ becomes collinear with a massless external momentum $p$. In gauge theories, it is known that the L-loop logarithm of a planar amplitude has much softer infrared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Alexander DiRe , Amin Shaikh , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We continue studying $6D, {\cal N}=(1,1)$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory in the ${\cal N}=(1,0)$ harmonic superspace formulation. Using the superfield background field method we explore the two-loop divergencies of the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 I. L. Buchbinder , E. A. Ivanov , B. S. Merzlikin , K. V. Stepanyantz

We compute for the first time the two-loop five-particle amplitude in $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity. Starting from the known integrand, we perform an integration-by-parts reduction and express the answer in terms of uniform weight master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , P. Wasser , Y. Zhang , S. Zoia

This paper considers general features of the derivative expansion of Feynman diagram contributions to the four-graviton scattering amplitude in eleven-dimensional supergravity compactified on a two-torus. These are translated into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Michael B. Green , Jorge G. Russo , Pierre Vanhove

We review recent progress in computations of amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity. We compare the perturbative expansion of amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills and N=8 supergravity and discuss surprising similarities.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Harald Ita

The recent progress in computing gauge theory amplitudes can be extended, in many cases, to theories incorporating gravity. This has improved our understanding of the perturbative expansion of N=8 supergravity supporting the ``no-triangle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-11 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Harald Ita

The decomposition of a one-loop scattering amplitude into elementary functions with rational coefficients introduces spurious singularities which afflict individual coefficients but cancel in the complete amplitude. These cancellations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

Maximally supersymmetric gauge theories have experienced renewed interest due to the AdS/CFT correspondence and its conjectured S-duality. These gauge theories possess a large amount of symmetry and have quasi-integrable properties. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

Four-point correlation functions are observables of significant interest in holographic field theories. We compute an infinite family of four-point correlation functions of operators in short multiplets of 4D N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 David Turton , Alexander Tyukov

We derive an exact algebraic identity between the two-loop four-point amplitude in ABJM theory and the corresponding one-loop amplitude in N=4 SYM theory. This identity generalizes previous partial results to an exact relation valid at all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Marco S. Bianchi , Matias Leoni , Silvia Penati

Higher-order invariants and their role as possible counterterms for supergravity theories are reviewed. It is argued that N=8 supergravity will diverge at 5 loops. The construction of $R^4$ superinvariants in string and M-theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Howe

Here we construct N=4 SuperYang-Mills 6 point NMHV loop amplitude (amplitudes with three minus helicities) as a full superspace form, using the $SU(4)_{R}$ anti-commuting spinor variables. Amplitudes with different external particle and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Yu-tin Huang

We construct the most general four-dimensional ${\cal N}=4$ supergravity coupled to an arbitrary number $n$ of vector multiplets in which the global scaling symmetry is gauged, in addition to a subgroup of $\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{R}) \times…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-30 Nikolaos Liatsos

We compute the anomalous two-loop four-point amplitudes in N=4 pure supergravity, using unitarity and the double-copy construction. We also present all terms determined by four-dimensional cuts in two all-multiplicity two-loop anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Zvi Bern , David Kosower , Julio Parra-Martinez

We illustrate the correspondence between the N=1 superstring compactifications with fluxes, the N=4 gauged supergravities and the superpotential and K\"ahler potential of the effective N=1 supergravity in four dimensions. In particular we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 J. -P. Derendinger , C. Kounnas , P. M. Petropoulos , F. Zwirner

We present the gauged N=4 (half-maximal) supergravities in four and five spacetime dimensions coupled to an arbitrary number of vector multiplets. The gaugings are parameterized by a set of appropriately constrained constant tensors, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-13 Jonas Schon , Martin Weidner

The spectrum of IIB supergravity on AdS${}_5 \times S^5$ contains a number of bound states described by long double-trace multiplets in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory at large 't Hooft coupling. At large $N$ these states are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 F. Aprile , J. M. Drummond , P. Heslop , H. Paul

Color-ordered amplitudes in gauge theories satisfy non-linear identities involving amplitude products of different helicity configurations. We consider the origin of such identities and connect them to the Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) relations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-20 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Bo Feng , Thomas Sondergaard

In the N=1 four-dimensional new-minimal supergravity framework, we supersymmetrise the coupling of the scalar kinetic term to the Einstein tensor. This coupling, although introduces a non-minimal derivative interaction of curvature to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Fotis Farakos , Cristiano Germani , Alex Kehagias , Emmanuel N. Saridakis