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We study the maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) six-gluon scattering amplitude in planar $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at finite coupling when all three cross ratios are small. It exhibits a double logarithmic scaling in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-29 Benjamin Basso , Lance J. Dixon , Georgios Papathanasiou

The precise form of the multi-Regge asymptotics of the two-loop six-point MHV amplitude in N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory has been a subject of recent controversy. In this paper we utilize the amplitude/Wilson loop correspondence to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-25 Robert M. Schabinger

We revisit the symbol bootstrap program for the seven-particle MHV and NMHV amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) based on the alphabet associated with the $E_6$ cluster algebra. After imposing integrability, cluster…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-24 Song He , Xuhang Jiang , Xiang Li , Jiahao Liu

Seven-point amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory have previously been constructed through four loops using the Steinmann cluster bootstrap, but only at the level of the symbol. We promote these symbols to actual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Lance J. Dixon , Yu-Ting Liu

We present an all-loop dispersion integral, well-defined to arbitrary logarithmic accuracy, describing the multi-Regge limit of the 2->5 amplitude in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. It follows from factorization, dual conformal symmetry…

We reformulate the heptagon cluster bootstrap to take advantage of the Steinmann relations, which require certain double discontinuities of any amplitude to vanish. These constraints vastly reduce the number of functions needed to bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Lance J. Dixon , James Drummond , Thomas Harrington , Andrew J. McLeod , Georgios Papathanasiou , Marcus Spradlin

We provide a simple analytic formula for the two-loop six-point ratio function of planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory. This result extends the analytic knowledge of multi-loop six-point amplitudes beyond those with maximal helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Johannes M. Henn

We apply the Landau equations, whose solutions parameterize the locus of possible branch points, to the one- and two-loop Feynman integrals relevant to MHV amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. We then identify which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Tristan Dennen , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We compute for the first time the two-loop corrections to arbitrary n-gon lightlike Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, using efficient numerical methods. The calculation is motivated by the remarkable agreement between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-29 Charalampos Anastasiou , Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

It is a remarkable fact that MHV amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at arbitrary loop order can be written as the product of the tree amplitude with the same helicity configuration and a universal, helicity-blind…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Gabriele Travaglini

We give a closed-form, prescriptive representation of all-multiplicity two-loop MHV amplitude integrands in fully-color-dressed (non-planar) maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Cameron Langer , Andrew J. McLeod , Jaroslav Trnka

We review various aspects of cluster algebras and the ways in which they appear in the study of loop-level amplitudes in planar ${\cal N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In particular, we highlight the different forms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-06 John Golden , Andrew J. McLeod

We compute the non-MHV one-loop seven-gluon amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, which contain three negative-helicity gluons and four positive-helicity gluons. There are four independent color-ordered amplitudes, (- - - + + + +), (-…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Zvi Bern , Vittorio Del Duca , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

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 propose a geometrical approach to generate symbol letters of amplitudes/integrals in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory, known as {\it Schubert problems}. Beginning with one-loop integrals, we find that intersections of lines…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Qinglin Yang

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

Multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory possess cluster algebra structure. In order to develop a computational framework which exploits this connection, we show how to construct bases of Goncharov polylogarithm functions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Daniel E. Parker , Adam Scherlis , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We show how to calculate the one-loop scattering amplitude with all gluons of negative helicity in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using MHV diagrams. We argue that the amplitude with all positive helicity gluons arises from a Jacobian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We compute for the first time the two-loop five-particle amplitude in $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity. Starting from the known integrand, we perform an integration-by-parts reduction and express the answer in terms of uniform weight master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , P. Wasser , Y. Zhang , S. Zoia

We derive analytic results for the symbol of certain two-loop Feynman integrals relevant for seven- and eight-point two-loop scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang--Mills theory. We use a bootstrap inspired strategy,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Johannes Henn , Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez