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Invariance of on-shell scattering amplitudes under field redefinitions is a well known property in field theory that corresponds to covariance of on-shell amputated connected functions. In recent years there have been great efforts to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Mohammad Alminawi

We initiate a systematic study of non-planar on-shell diagrams in N=4 SYM and develop powerful technology for doing so. We introduce canonical variables generalizing face variables, which make the dlog form of the on-shell form explicit. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-29 Sebastian Franco , Daniele Galloni , Brenda Penante , Congkao Wen

We discuss the on-shell diagrammatic representation of theories less special than maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills. In particular, we focus on planar $\mathcal{N}\,\le\,2$ gauge theories, including pure Yang-Mills. For such a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Paolo Benincasa

In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. For the off-shell amplitudes with one leg off-shell we present a conjecture for their Grassmannian integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko

We study the correspondence between scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops in three-dimensional Chern-Simons matter theories. In particular, using N=2 superspace formalism, we compute at one loop the whole spectrum of four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Marco S. Bianchi , Matias Leoni , Andrea Mauri , Silvia Penati , Alberto Santambrogio

We review completely monotone (CM) and Stieltjes functions, which are classes of functions obeying an infinite hierarchy of positivity constraints. While these are classical concepts in analysis, such properties have recently been shown to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Prashanth Raman

In this thesis, we take a journey through two different but not dissimilar stories with an underlying theme of combinatorics emerging from scattering amplitudes in quantum field theories. The first part tells the tale of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Simone Hu

We present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

We review some recent developments in the understanding of field theories in the perturbative regime. In particular, we discuss the notions of analyticity, unitarity and locality, and therefore the singularity structure of scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Paolo Benincasa

In this letter we compute a canonical set of cuts of the integrand for MHV amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ SYM, where all internal propagators are put on-shell. These "deepest cuts" probe the most complicated Feynman diagrams and on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Cameron Langer , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Jaroslav Trnka

Planar N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory appears to be a quantum integrable four-dimensional conformal theory. This has been used to find equations believed to describe its exact spectrum of anomalous dimensions. Integrability seemingly also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Carlo Meneghelli , Jan Plefka , Matthias Staudacher

Dual superconformal invariance has recently emerged as a hidden symmetry of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. This symmetry can be made manifest by expressing amplitudes in terms of `momentum twistors', as opposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Lionel Mason , David Skinner

The many intricate connections between scattering amplitudes, on-shell diagrams, and the positroid stratification of the Grassmannian has recently been described in great detail. In order to facilitate the exploration of this rich…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

We propose a dual formulation for the S Matrix of N = 4 SYM. The dual provides a basis for the "leading singularities" of scattering amplitudes to all orders in perturbation theory, which are sharply defined, IR safe data that uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-22 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung , Jared Kaplan

Recently, scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime have been interpreted as conformal correlation functions on the two-dimensional celestial sphere, the so-called celestial amplitudes. In this note we consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Livia Ferro , Robert Moerman

Dimensionally-regulated Feynman integrals are a cornerstone of all perturbative computations in quantum field theory. They are known to exhibit a rich mathematical structure, which has led to the development of powerful new techniques for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr

We investigate the Yangian symmetry of scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and show that its formulations in twistor and momentum twistor space can be interchanged. In particular we show that the full symmetry can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-09 J. M. Drummond , L. Ferro

We take up the study of integrable structures behind non-planar contributions to scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Focusing on leading singularities, we derive the action of the Yangian generators on color-ordered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-02 Rouven Frassek , David Meidinger

Over the past two years, the use of on-shell techniques has deepened our understanding of the S-matrix of gauge theories and led to the calculation of many new scattering amplitudes. In these notes we review a particular on-shell method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini

Scattering amplitudes are both a wonderful playground to discover novel ideas in Quantum Field Theory and simultaneously of immense phenomenological importance to make precision predictions for e.g.~particle collider observables and more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-24 Enrico Herrmann , Jaroslav Trnka