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Attached to both Yang-Mills and General Relativity about Minkowski spacetime are distinguished gauge independent objects known as the on-shell tree scattering amplitudes. We reinterpret and rigorously construct them as $L_\infty$ minimal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Andrea Nützi , Michael Reiterer

The three-loop four-point function of stress-tensor multiplets in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory contains two so far unknown, off-shell, conformal integrals, in addition to the known, ladder-type integrals. In this paper we evaluate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 James Drummond , Claude Duhr , Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Jeffrey Pennington , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We initiate a systematic study on how to extract planar integrands of (supersymmetric) scattering amplitudes with $L$ loops and $n$ legs in Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory from the recently proposed (bosonic) generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Song He , Yao-Qi Zhang

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

There is growing evidence that on-shell gluon scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM theory are equivalent to Wilson loops evaluated over contours consisting of straight, light-like segments defined by the momenta of the external gluons.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-26 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We study the collinear factorization of off-shell scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills (sYM) theory. These are constructed starting from six-dimensional N = (1,1) sYM, taking advantage of an available unconstrained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 A. V. Belitsky

We initiate a systematic study of the consequences of (super)conformal symmetry of massless scattering amplitudes. The classical symmetry is potentially broken at the quantum level by infrared and ultraviolet effects. We study its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes M. Henn , Emery Sokatchev

In this paper, we investigate tree-level scattering amplitude relations in $U(N)$ non-linear sigma model. We use Cayley parametrization. As was shown in the recent works [23,24] both on-shell amplitudes and off-shell currents with odd…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Gang Chen , Yi-Jian Du

We show how studying leading singularities of Feynman diagrams, when all momenta are complex, gives a simple way of writing multi-loop and multi-particle scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The simplicity of the method is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-14 Freddy Cachazo

6D maximal super Yang-Mills on-shell amplitudes are formulated in superspace using 6 dimensional twistors. The 3,4,5-point tree amplitudes are obtained by supersymmetrizing their bosonic counterparts and confirmed through the BCFW…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Warren Siegel

In this paper, we introduce the momentum space amplituhedron for tree-level scattering amplitudes of ABJM theory. We demonstrate that the scattering amplitude can be identified as the canonical form on the space given by the product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Yu-tin Huang , Ryota Kojima , Congkao Wen , Shun-Qing Zhang

The Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY) formula for on-shell scattering amplitudes are extended off-shell. The off-shell amplitudes are M\"obius invariant, and have the same momentum poles as the on-shell amplitudes. The same technique is also used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-23 C. S. Lam , York-Peng Yao

In the first-quantised worldline approach to quantum field theory, a long-standing problem has been to extend this formalism to amplitudes involving open fermion lines while maintaining the efficiency of the well-tested closed-loop case. In…

In this paper, we study a new application of the positive Grassmanian to Wilson loop diagrams (or MHV diagrams) for scattering amplitudes in N=4 Super Yang-Mill theory ($N=4$ SYM). There has been much interest in studying this theory via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Susama Agarwala , Eloi Marin Amat

We propose a bootstrap program for the {\it form factor squared} with operator ${\rm tr}(\phi^2)$ in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the planar limit, which plays a central role for perturbative calculations of important…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Song He , Xiang Li , Jingwen Lin , Jiahao Liu , Kai Yan

I discuss the state-of-the-art knowledge of long-distance singularities in multi-leg gauge-theory scattering amplitudes and report on an on-going calculation of the three-loop soft anomalous dimension through the renormalization of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-22 Einan Gardi

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

The presence of strong electromagnetic fields adds huge complexity to QED Feynman diagrams, such that new methods are required to calculate higher-loop and higher-multiplicity scattering amplitudes. Here we use the worldline formalism to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Patrick Copinger , James P. Edwards , Anton Ilderton , Karthik Rajeev

One-loop scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) theories are analyzed in the paradigm of maximal helicity violating Feynman diagrams. There are very limited number of loop integrals to be evaluated. For a process with n…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Mingxing Luo , Congkao Wen

Tree-level scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills are known to be Yangian-invariant. It has been shown that integrability allows to obtain a general, explicit method to find such invariants. The uplifting of this result to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Andrea Orta , Matteo Parisi