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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

The contributions of scalars and fermions to the null polygonal bosonic Wilson loops/gluon MHV scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM are considered. We first examine the re-summation of scalars at strong coupling. Then, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-19 Alfredo Bonini , Davide Fioravanti , Simone Piscaglia , Marco Rossi

We study Feynman integrals and scattering amplitudes in ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills by exploiting the duality with null polygonal Wilson loops. Certain Feynman integrals, including one-loop and two-loop chiral pentagons, are given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Song He , Zhenjie Li , Qinglin Yang , Chi Zhang

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 initiate an exploration of on-shell functions in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM beyond the planar limit by providing compact, combinatorial expressions for all leading singularities of MHV amplitudes and showing that they can always be expressed as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Alexander Postnikov , Jaroslav Trnka

We construct a superpropagator in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory which is invariant off-shell under a chiral half of supersymmetries. Motivated by the duality with scattering amplitudes in this theory, we apply this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 A. V. Belitsky , S. Caron-Huot

We consider $U(N)$ $\mathcal N=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and discuss how to extract the strong coupling limit of non-planar corrections to observables involving the $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS Wilson loop. Our approach is based on a suitable saddle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Matteo Beccaria , Azeem Hasan

We present a three-loop O(g^6) calculation of the difference between the expectation values of Wilson loops evaluated in N=4 and superconformal N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(N) using dimensional reduction. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-04 Roman Andree , Donovan Young

It is well-known that the expectation values of null polygonal Wilson loops computed in planar \(\mathcal{N}=4\) super Yang-Mills theory are dual to MHV amplitudes in that theory, and moreover that the duality can be extended to higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 James Drummond , Ömer Gürdoğan , Matthew Rochford , Rowan Wright

We propose a non-perturbative formulation of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM or, equivalently, polygonal Wilson loops. The construction is based on the OPE approach and introduces a new decomposition of the Wilson loop in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-04 Benjamin Basso , Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira

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

We show that a certain class of light-like Wilson loops exhibits a Yangian symmetry at one loop, or equivalently, in an Abelian theory. The Wilson loops we discuss are equivalent to one-loop MHV amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 J. M. Drummond , L. Ferro , E. Ragoucy

We explore the duality between supersymmetric Wilson loop on null polygonal contours in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and next-to-maximal helicity violating (NMHV) scattering amplitudes. Earlier analyses demonstrated that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 A. V. Belitsky

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 give a representation of the parity-even part of the planar two-loop six-gluon MHV amplitude of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, in terms of loop-momentum integrals with simple dual conformal properties. We evaluate the integrals numerically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , D. A. Kosower , R. Roiban , M. Spradlin , C. Vergu , A. Volovich

In this work, we compute the two-loop result of the null hexagonal Wilson loop with a Lagrangian insertion in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory via a bootstrap approach. Normalized by the null polygonal Wilson loop itself,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-05 Sérgio Carrôlo , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

The leading singularities of one-loop scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory are known to factorise into products of tree-level amplitudes, and this can be seen from a number of different perspectives e.g.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 James Drummond , Matthew Rochford , Rowan Wright

We compare the two-loop corrections to the finite part of the light-like hexagon Wilson loop with the recent numerical results for the finite part of the MHV six-gluon amplitude in N=4 SYM theory by Bern, Dixon, Kosower, Roiban, Spradlin,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

The Grassmannian formulation of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory expresses tree-level scattering amplitudes as linear combinations of residues from certain contour integrals. BCFW bridge decompositions using adjacent transpositions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-25 Timothy M. Olson

We argue that generic one-loop scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories can be computed equivalently with MHV diagrams or with Feynman diagrams. We first present a general proof of the covariance of one-loop non-MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini