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We examine universal positivity constraints on $2 \to 2$ scattering in 4d planar $N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with higher-derivative corrections. We present numerical evidence that the convex region of allowed Wilson coefficients…

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We use the leading singularity technique to determine the planar three-loop five-particle amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills in terms of a simple basis of integrals. We analytically compute the integral coefficients for both the parity-even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We propose a new method for constructing the consistent space of scattering amplitudes by parameterizing the imaginary parts of partial waves and utilizing dispersion relations, crossing symmetry, and full unitarity. Using this framework,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-21 Claudia de Rham , Andrew J. Tolley , Zhuo-Hui Wang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We consider the high energy limit of the colour ordered one-loop five-gluon amplitude in the planar maximally supersymmetric N=4 Yang-Mills theory in the multi-Regge kinematics where all of the gluons are strongly ordered in rapidity. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , E. W. Nigel Glover

We derive a recursion relation for loop-level scattering amplitudes of Lagrangian field theories that generalises the tree-level Berends-Giele recursion relation in Yang-Mills theory. The origin of this recursion relation is the homological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-07 Branislav Jurco , Tommaso Macrelli , Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

We demonstrate that the tree-level amplitudes of maximal super-Yang-Mills theory in six dimensions, when stripped of their overall momentum and supermomentum delta functions, are covariant with respect to the six-dimensional dual conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang

We study scattering on the Coulomb branch of planar ${\mathcal{N}}=4$ SYM at finite 't Hooft coupling. This setup defines a family of classical open-string S-matrices that smoothly interpolates between perturbative parton scattering at weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-24 Luis F. Alday , Elisabetta Armanini , Kelian Häring , Alexander Zhiboedov

Scattering amplitudes in $D$ dimensions involve particular terms that originate from the interplay of UV poles with the $D-4$ dimensional parts of loop numerators. Such contributions can be controlled through a finite set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Jean-Nicolas Lang , Stefano Pozzorini , Hantian Zhang , Max F. Zoller

We explore the idea to bootstrap Feynman integrals using integrability. In particular, we put the recently discovered Yangian symmetry of conformal Feynman integrals to work. As a prototypical example we demonstrate that the D-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Florian Loebbert , Dennis Müller , Hagen Münkler

Bootstrap methods, initially developed for solving statistical and quantum field theories, have recently been shown to capture the discrete spectrum of quantum mechanical problems, such as the single particle Schr\"odinger equation with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Serguei Tchoumakov , Serge Florens

We present an integral representation for the parity-even part of the two-loop six-point planar NMHV amplitude in terms of Feynman integrals which have simple transformation properties under the dual conformal symmetry. We probe the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 D. A. Kosower , R. Roiban , C. Vergu

Two-loop MHV amplitudes in planar ${\cal N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang Mills theory are known to exhibit many intriguing forms of cluster-algebraic structure. We leverage this structure to upgrade the symbols of the eight- and nine-particle…

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We study constraints from higher-point amplitudes on $2 \to 2$ scattering in the context of effective field theory (EFT) using the perturbative numerical S-matrix bootstrap. Specifically, we investigate the class of weakly coupled EFTs with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Justin Berman , Henriette Elvang , Carolina Figueiredo

We present the complete integrands of five-point superamplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity, at one and two loops, for four-dimensional external states and D-dimensional internal kinematics. For N=4 super-Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-18 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Henrik Johansson

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

We propose that Baxter's Z-invariant six-vertex model at the rational gl(2) point on a planar but in general not rectangular lattice provides a way to study Yangian invariants. These are identified with eigenfunctions of certain monodromies…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-15 Rouven Frassek , Nils Kanning , Yumi Ko , Matthias Staudacher

We present a compact analytic expression for the leading colour two-loop five-gluon amplitude in Yang-Mills theory with a single negative helicity and four positive helicities. The analytic result is reconstructed from numerical evaluations…

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