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It is important to find nontrivial constraint relations for color-ordered amplitudes in gauge theories. In the past several years, a pure group-theoretic iterative method has been proposed to derive linear constraints on color-ordered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Jia-Hui Huang

We consider a double OPE limit of the planar four-point function of stress tensor multiplets in N = 4 SYM theory. Loop integrands for this correlator have been constructed to very high order, but the corresponding integrals are explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Burkhard Eden , Felix Paul

In this paper we construct a light-like polygonal Wilson loop in N=6 superspace for ABJM theory. We then use it to obtain constraints on its two- and three-loop bosonic version, by focusing on higher order terms in the $\theta$ expansion.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Matteo Rosso , Cristian Vergu

Anomalous dimensions of high-twist Wilson operators have a nontrivial scaling behavior in the limit when their Lorentz spin grows exponentially with the twist. To describe the corresponding scaling function in planar N=4 SYM theory, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Basso , G. P. Korchemsky

We study the 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loop in four-dimensional SU(N), $N = 2$ SYM theories with massless hypermultiplets and non-vanishing $\beta$-function. Using super-symmetric localization on $S_4$ , we map the path-integral associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-22 Marco Billo' , Luca Griguolo , Alessandro Testa

The N=2* Super-Yang-Mills theory (SYM*) undergoes an infinite sequence of large-N quantum phase transitions. We compute expectation values of Wilson loops in k-symmetric and antisymmetric representations of the SU(N) gauge group in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-16 Xinyi Chen-Lin , Konstantin Zarembo

One of the many remarkable features of MHV scattering amplitudes is their conjectured equality to lightlike polygon Wilson loops, which apparently holds at all orders in perturbation theory as well as non-perturbatively. This duality is…

We evaluate all next-to-maximal helicity violating (NMHV) six-gluon amplitudes in type I open superstring theory in four dimensions, at the disk level, to all orders in alpha'. Although the computation utilizes supersymmetric Ward…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

We discuss the origin of the Wilson polygon - MHV amplitude duality at the perturbative level. It is shown that the duality for the MHV amplitudes at one-loop level can be proven upon the peculiar change of variables in Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-17 A. Gorsky , A. Zhiboedov

For N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories in three dimensions, by a direct superspace Feynman diagram approach, we compute the two-loop four-point scattering amplitude with external chiral matter fields. We find that the result is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Marco S. Bianchi , Matias Leoni , Andrea Mauri , Silvia Penati , Alberto Santambrogio

We compute the four-point amplitude with external adjoint particles in $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCQCD at two loops using $\mathcal{N}=1$ superspace Feynman diagrams, extending the results of arXiv:1406.7283. We consider the diagrammatic difference…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Marta Leoni , Andrea Mauri , Alberto Santambrogio

We describe the minimal space of polylogarithmic functions that is required to express the six-particle amplitude in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory through six and seven loops, in the NMHV and MHV sectors respectively. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Simon Caron-Huot , Lance J. Dixon , Falko Dulat , Matt von Hippel , Andrew J. McLeod , Georgios Papathanasiou

We consider the correlation function of a null Wilson loop with four edges and a local operator in planar MSYM. By applying the insertion procedure, developed for correlation functions of local operators, we give an integral representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-17 Luis F. Alday , Paul Heslop , Jakub Sikorowski

We consider supersymmetric Wilson loops of the variety constructed by Drukker, Giombi, Ricci, and Trancanelli, whose spatial contours lie on a two-sphere. Working to second order in the 't Hooft coupling in planar N=4 Supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Donovan Young

In the planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at weak coupling, we perform the first analytic computation of a two-loop eight-edged Wilson loop embedded into the boundary of AdS3. Its remainder function is given as a function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We study the half-BPS circular Wilson loop in ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills with orthogonal gauge group. By supersymmetric localization, its expectation value can be computed exactly from a matrix integral over the Lie algebra of $SO(N)$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-22 Simone Giombi , Bendeguz Offertaler

We consider the four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ quiver gauge theory arising from a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills with gauge group $SU(2N)$. We study the integrated correlator between a half-BPS Wilson line and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Alessandro Pini

We consider the expectation value $\langle \cal W \rangle$ of the circular BPS Wilson loop in ${\cal N}=2$ superconformal $SU(N)$ gauge theory containing a vector multiplet coupled to two hypermultiplets in rank-2 symmetric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-28 Matteo Beccaria , Gerald V. Dunne , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We study spin models underlying the non-planar dynamics of ${\cal N}=4$ SYM gauge theory. In particular, we derive the non-local spin chain Hamiltonian generating dilatations in the gauge theory at leading order in $g_{\rm YM}^2 N$ but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bellucci , P. -Y. Casteill , J. F. Morales , C. Sochichiu

We study correlators of null, $n$-sided polygonal Wilson loops with a Lagrangian insertion in the planar limit of the ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This finite observable is closely related to loop integrands of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Taro V. Brown , Johannes M. Henn , Elia Mazzucchelli , Jaroslav Trnka