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We extend the applications of prescriptive unitarity beyond the planar limit to provide local, polylogarithmic, integrand-level representations of six-particle MHV scattering amplitudes in both maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Cameron Langer , Andrew J. McLeod , Jaroslav Trnka

Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory are independent of the field parameterization, which has a natural geometric interpretation as a form of `coordinate invariance.' Amplitudes can be expressed in terms of Riemannian curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Timothy Cohen , Nathaniel Craig , Xiaochuan Lu , Dave Sutherland

We show that scattering amplitudes in planar N = 4 Super Yang-Mills in multi-Regge kinematics can naturally be expressed in terms of single-valued iterated integrals on the moduli space of Riemann spheres with marked points. As a…

The collinear factorization properties of two-loop scattering amplitudes in dimensionally-regulated N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory suggest that, in the planar ('t Hooft) limit, higher-loop contributions can be expressed entirely in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 C. Anastasiou , Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We derive the four-dimensional integrand of the maximal-helicity-violating four-particle form factor for the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at two loops. In our integrand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-26 Tushar Gopalka , Enrico Herrmann

In this contribution we describe computational tools that permit the evaluation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=8 supergravity, in terms of amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We also discuss the remarkable ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Lance Dixon , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

We present a world-sheet formula for all tree level scattering amplitudes, in all trace sectors, of four dimensional $\mathcal{N} \leq 4$ supersymmetric Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, based on the refined scattering equations. This generalizes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Kai A. Roehrig

The analytic structures of scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity are examined on the celestial sphere. The celestial amplitudes in the two theories - computed by employing a regulated Mellin transform - can be compared at low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 Nikhil Kalyanapuram

The scattering equation formalism is a general framework for calculation of amplitudes in theories of massless particles. We provide a detailed introduction to the 4D scattering equation framework accessible to non-experts, outline current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 Joseph A. Farrow

We prove the formula for the complete tree-level $S$-matrix of $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity recently conjectured by two of the authors. The proof proceeds by showing that the new formula satisfies the same BCFW recursion relations that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-02 Freddy Cachazo , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

We study double copy relations for loop integrands in gauge theories and gravity based on their constructions from single cuts, which are in turn obtained from forward limits of lower-loop cases. While such a construction from forward…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Qu Cao , Song He , Yong Zhang , Fan Zhu

The tree-level S-matrix of Einstein's theory is known to have a representation as an integral over the moduli space of punctured spheres localized to the solutions of the scattering equations. In this paper we introduce three operations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Freddy Cachazo , Song He , Ellis Ye Yuan

We propose a new framework to represent the perturbative S-matrix which is well-defined for all quantum field theories of massless particles, constructed from tree-level amplitudes and integrable term-by-term. This representation is derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Christian Baadsgaard , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Simon Caron-Huot , Poul H. Damgaard , Bo Feng

We introduce two new graphical-level relations among possible contributions to the four-point correlation function and scattering amplitude in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. When combined with the rung rule, these prove…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran

We compute the potential-graviton contribution to the scattering amplitude, the radial action, and the scattering angle of two extremal black holes in N = 8 supergravity at the fifth post-Minkowskian order to next-to-leading order in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Mao Zeng

We consider the leading and subleading UV divergences for the four-point on-shell scattering amplitudes in D=8 N=1 sypersymmetric Yang-Mills theory within the spinor-helicity and superfield formalism. This theory belongs to the class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 D. I. Kazakov , D. E. Vlasenko

We describe a new set of public, self-contained, and versatile computational tools for the investigation, manipulation, and evaluation of tree-level amplitudes in pure (super)Yang-Mills and (super)Gravity, $\phi^p$-scalar field theory, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

It is proposed an integral formulation of classical Yang-Mills equations in the presence of sources, based on concepts in loop spaces and on a generalization of the non-abelian Stokes theorem for two-form connections. The formulation leads…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-21 L. A. Ferreira , G. Luchini

We study a complex analogue of a Wilson Loop, defined over a complex curve, in non-Abelian holomorphic Chern-Simons theory. We obtain a version of the Makeenko-Migdal loop equation describing how the expectation value of these Wilson Loops…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-10 Mathew Bullimore , David Skinner

In this letter we present a recursive method for computing one-loop off-shell amplitudes in colored quantum field theories. First, we generalize the perturbiner method by recasting the multiparticle currents as generators of off-shell tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-14 Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas , Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos , Alexander Quintero Velez