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We review, in a self-contained and pedagogical manner, recent developments and techniques for the evaluation of the scattering amplitudes of planar N=4 SYM theory at both weak and strong coupling. Special emphasis is placed on the newly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Luis F. Alday , Radu Roiban

We investigate positivity properties in quantum field theory (QFT). We provide evidence,and in some case proofs, that many building blocks of scattering amplitudes, and in some cases the full amplitudes, satisfy an infinite number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-17 Johannes Henn , Prashanth Raman

We present evidence that loop amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills (SYM) beyond the planar limit share some of the remarkable structures of the planar theory. In particular, we show that through two loops, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-07 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Jaroslav Trnka

We review the structure of gauge theory scattering amplitudes at tree level and describe how a compact expression can be found which encodes all the tree-level amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 theory. The expressions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Drummond

The search for a theory of the S-Matrix has revealed surprising geometric structures underlying amplitudes ranging from the worldsheet to the amplituhedron, but these are all geometries in auxiliary spaces as opposed to kinematic space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yuntao Bai , Song He , Gongwang Yan

The infrared exponentiation properties of dimensionally-regularized multi-loop scattering amplitudes are typically hidden at the level of the integrand, materializing only after integral evaluation. We address this long-standing problem by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Robert M. Schabinger

The Amplituhedron provides, via geometric means, the all-loop integrand of scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Unfortunately, dimensional regularization, used conventionally for integration, breaks the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-21 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Wojciech Flieger , Johannes M. Henn , Anders Schreiber , Jaroslav Trnka

The amplituhedron provides a beautiful description of perturbative superamplitude integrands in N=4 SYM in terms of purely geometric objects, generalisations of polytopes. On the other hand the Wilson loop in supertwistor space also gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Paul Heslop , Alastair Stewart

We elaborate the two-fold simplex-like structures of tree amplitudes in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills (N=4 SYM), through its connection to a mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. Exploiting the reduced…

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

Amplituhedra $\mathcal{A}_{n,k}^{(m)}$ are geometric objects of great interest in modern mathematics and physics: for mathematicians they are combinatorially rich generalizations of polygons and polytopes, based on the notion of positivity;…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-02 Tomasz Lukowski

We elaborate on aspects of a new positive geometry proposed recently, which was conjectured to be the four-point amplituhedron for ABJM theory. We study generalized unitarity cuts from the geometry, and in particular we prove that (1) the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Song He , Chia-Kai Kuo , Zhenjie Li , Yao-Qi Zhang

Inspired by the topological sign-flip definition of the Amplituhedron, we introduce similar, but distinct, positive geometries relevant for one-loop scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. The simplest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-27 Enrico Herrmann , Cameron Langer , Jaroslav Trnka , Minshan Zheng

The geometric structure of S-matrix encapsulated by the "Amplituhedron program" has begun to reveal itself even in non-supersymmetric quantum field theories. Starting with the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He and Yan it is now…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Mrunmay Jagadale , Alok Laddha

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

Scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory reveal a remarkable symmetry structure. In addition to the superconformal symmetry of the Lagrangian of the theory, the planar amplitudes exhibit a dual superconformal symmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 J. M. Drummond

Scattering amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are dual to expectation values of null polygonal Wilson loops. The Amplituhedron provides a geometric construction for the all-loop integrand as the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Lance J. Dixon , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka , Yongqun Xu , Shun-Qing Zhang

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

Recent years have seen a surprising connection between the physics of scattering amplitudes and a class of mathematical objects--the positive Grassmannian, positive loop Grassmannians, tree and loop Amplituhedra--which have been loosely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yuntao Bai , Thomas Lam

Based on 1712.09990 which handles the 4-particle amplituhedron at 3-loop, we have found an extremely simple pattern, yet far more non-trivial than one might naturally expect: the all-loop Mondrian diagrammatics. By further simplifying and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-21 Yang An , Yi Li , Zhinan Li , Junjie Rao

In this letter we consider the collinear limit of gluon scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM theory at strong coupling. We argue that in this limit scattering amplitudes map into correlators of twist fields in the two dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-07 Benjamin Basso , Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira