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We present a systematic procedure to compute complete, analytic form factors of gauge-invariant operators at loop level in pure Yang-Mills. We consider applications to operators of the form $\mathrm{Tr}\, F^n$ where $F$ is the gluon field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-15 Manuel Accettulli Huber , Andreas Brandhuber , Stefano De Angelis , Gabriele Travaglini

Next-to-MHV one-loop amplitudes in N=4 gauge theory can be written as a linear combination of known multivalued functions, called scalar box functions, with coefficients that are rational functions. We consider the localization of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ruth Britto , Freddy Cachazo , Bo Feng

We compute, to the lowest perturbative order in $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills theory, $n$-point correlators in the coordinate and momentum representation of the gauge-invariant twist-$2$ operators with maximal spin along the $p_+$ direction, both in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-31 Marco Bochicchio , Mauro Papinutto , Francesco Scardino

We propose a new diagrammatic formulation of the all-loop scattering amplitudes/Wilson loops in planar N=4 SYM, dubbed the "momentum-twistor diagrams". These are on-shell-diagrams obtained by gluing trivalent black and white vertices…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Yuntao Bai , Song He

We derive a compact expression for the three-point MHV form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills at two loops. The main tools of our calculation are generalised unitarity applied at the form factor level, and the compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

Quantum sinh-Gordon model in 1+1 dimensions is one of the simplest and best-studied massive integrable relativistic quantum field theories. We consider this theory on a multi-sheeted Riemann surfaces with a flat metric, which can be seen as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Michael Lashkevich , Amir Nesturov

We present a new, explicit formula for all tree-level amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The formula is written as a certain contour integral of the connected prescription of Witten's twistor string, expressed in link variables. A very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Jaroslav Trnka , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We study twist operators in higher dimensional CFT's. In particular, we express their conformal dimension in terms of the energy density for the CFT in a particular thermal ensemble. We construct an expansion of the conformal dimension in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Ling-Yan Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

When performing the Fourier transform of the scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory from momentum space to real twistor space, we encounter sign factors that break global conformal invariance. Previous studies conjectured that the sign…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-14 Jun-ichi Note

We construct a twistor space action for N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and show that it is equivalent to its four dimensional spacetime counterpart at the level of perturbation theory. We compare our partition function to the original…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Rutger Boels , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

We study correlation functions in topologically twisted $\mathcal{N}=2, d=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory for gauge groups of rank larger than one on compact four-manifolds $X$. We find that the topological invariance of the generator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Marcos Marino , Gregory Moore

We propose an operator product expansion for planar form factors of local operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. This expansion is based on the dual conformal symmetry of these objects or, equivalently, the conformal symmetry of their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-22 Amit Sever , Alexander G. Tumanov , Matthias Wilhelm

Soft theorems for the form factors of 1/2-BPS and Konishi operator supermultiplets are derived at tree level in N=4 SYM theory. They have a form identical to the one in the amplitude case. For MHV sectors of stress tensor and Konishi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko

Form factors are important ingredients to investigate the principle of maximal transcendentality (PMT) and to extract anomalous dimensions of local gauge invariant operators. In this article, we compute several two- and three-point FFs to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 Taushif Ahmed , Pulak Banerjee , Amlan Chakraborty , Prasanna K. Dhani , V. Ravindran

We compute the complete non-planar integrand for the correlation function of four lightest scalar operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at five-loop order. This is equivalent to the super-correlator of nine stress-tensor multiplets in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Till Bargheer , Albert Bekov

We consider higher-point generalizations of the "octagon" large-charge four-point function in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. These n-point polygon correlators are defined as ten-dimensional null limits of generating functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Till Bargheer , Albert Bekov , Carlos Bercini , Frank Coronado

Vasiliev equations facilitate globally defined formulations of higher-spin gravity in various correspondence spaces associated with different phases of the theory. In the four-dimensional case this induces a map from a generally covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicolo Colombo , Per Sundell

We initiate a study of correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory using the light-cone superspace formalism. Our primary aim is to develop efficient methods to compute perturbative corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Sudarshan Ananth , Stefano Kovacs , Sarthak Parikh

We consider correlation functions of topologically twisted, $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group ${\rm SU}(2)$ and $N_f\leq 3$ massive hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. For a smooth, compact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

We compute two-loop form factors of operators in the $SU(2|3)$ closed subsector of $N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills. In particular, we focus on the non-protected, dimension-three operators $\mathrm{Tr} (X[Y,Z])$ and $\mathrm{Tr} ( \psi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Martyna Kostacinska , Brenda Penante , Gabriele Travaglini , Donovan Young