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We initiate a systematic study of amplitudes with massive external particles on the Coulomb-branch of N=4 super Yang Mills theory: 1) We propose that (multi-)soft-scalar limits of massless amplitudes at the origin of moduli space can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier , Tracy Slatyer

This article proves the cyclicity of anti-NMHV and N$^2$MHV tree amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM up to any number of external particles as an interesting application of positive Grassmannian geometry. In this proof the two-fold simplex-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Junjie Rao

We continue the study of the duality between super-correlators and scattering super-amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM. We provide a number of further examples supporting the conjectured duality relation between these two seemingly different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

We present an on-shell formalism for superamplitudes of pure N<4 super Yang-Mills theory. Two superfields, Phi and Phi^+, are required to describe the two CPT conjugate supermultiplets. Simple truncation prescriptions allow us to derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Henriette Elvang , Yu-tin Huang , Cheng Peng

We study n-point tree amplitudes of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity for general configurations of external particles of the two theories. We construct generating functions for n-point MHV and NMHV amplitudes with general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-08 Massimo Bianchi , Henriette Elvang , Daniel Z. Freedman

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

We perform the twistor (half-Fourier) transform of all tree n-particle superamplitudes in N=4 SYM and show that it has a transparent geometric interpretation. We find that the N^kMHV amplitude is supported on a set of (2k+1) intersecting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-26 G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We incorporate all gauge-invariant local composite operators into the twistor-space formulation of N=4 SYM theory, detailing and expanding on ideas we presented recently in arXiv:1603.04471. The vertices for these operators contain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-01 Laura Koster , Vladimir Mitev , Matthias Staudacher , Matthias Wilhelm

Parke-Taylor functions are certain rational functions on the Grassmannian of lines encoding MHV amplitudes in particle physics. For $n$ particles there are $n!$ Parke-Taylor functions, corresponding to all orderings of the particles. Linear…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Benjamin Hollering , Dmitrii Pavlov

Very recently in arXiv:0705.0303 Alday and Maldacena gave a string theory prescription for computing (all) planar amplitudes in N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory at strong coupling using the AdS/CFT correspondence. These amplitudes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven Abel , Stefan Forste , Valentin V. Khoze

This article revisits and elaborates the significant role of positive geometry of momentum twistor Grassmannian for planar N=4 SYM scattering amplitudes. First we establish the fundamentals of positive Grassmannian geometry for tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-11 Junjie Rao

In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM with arbitrary number of off-shell gluons or equivalently Wilson line operator insertions. We make a conjecture for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-20 L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko

We define recursion relations for N = 8 supergravity amplitudes using a generalization of the on-shell diagrams developed for planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills. Although the recursion relations generically give rise to non-planar on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Paul Heslop , Arthur E. Lipstein

It is a remarkable fact that MHV amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at arbitrary loop order can be written as the product of the tree amplitude with the same helicity configuration and a universal, helicity-blind…

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

The simplest integrands in the CHY formulation of scattering amplitudes are constructed using the so-called Parke-Taylor functions. Parke-Taylor functions also turn out to belong to a large class of rational functions known as MHV leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-13 Freddy Cachazo

We continue the discussion of the decorated on-shell diagrammatics for planar N < 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories started in arXiv:1510.03642. In particular, we focus on its relation with the structure of varieties on the Grassmannian.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Paolo Benincasa , David Gordo

We present a supersymmetric generalization of the MHV vertex expansion for all tree amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. In addition to the choice of a reference spinor, this super MHV vertex expansion also depends on four reference Grassmann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 Michael Kiermaier , Stephen G. Naculich

There is a remarkable well-known connection between the G$(4,n)$ cluster algebra and $n$-particle amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. For $n \ge 8$ two long-standing open questions have been to find a mathematically natural way to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Thomas Lam , Marcus Spradlin

In this paper we provide a first attempt towards a toric geometric interpretation of scattering amplitudes. In recent investigations it has indeed been proposed that the all-loop integrand of planar N=4 SYM can be represented in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Antonio Amariti , Davide Forcella

In this PhD thesis we extend the twistor formalism to encompass (partially) off-shell quantities. We describe all gauge-invariant local composite operators in twistor space and show that they immediately generate all tree-level form factors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-21 Laura Koster