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In this note we study supersymmetric Wilson loops restricted to an S^2 submanifold of four-dimensional space in N=4 super Yang-Mills. We provide evidence from both perturbation theory and the AdS dual that those loops are equal to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nadav Drukker , Simone Giombi , Riccardo Ricci , Diego Trancanelli

We introduce superspace generalizations of the transverse derivatives to rewrite the four-dimensional N=4 Yang-Mills theory into the fully ten-dimensional N=1 Yang-Mills in light-cone form. The explicit SuperPoincare algebra is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-07-09 Sudarshan Ananth , Lars Brink , Pierre Ramond

As part of the Snowmass community planning exercise, we highlight an ongoing program of research into the structure of scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, particularly in the planar limit of a large number of colors. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-22 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Lance J. Dixon , Andrew J. McLeod , Marcus Spradlin , Jaroslav Trnka , Anastasia Volovich

In this thesis, we study the integrands of a special four-point correlation function formed of protected half-BPS operators and scattering amplitudes in planar supersymmetric $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills. We use the `soft-collinear bootstrap'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-07 Vuong-Viet Tran

A non-trivial consequence of the super-correlator/super-amplitude duality is that the integrand of the four-point correlation function of stress-tensor multiplets in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills contains a certain combination of n-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran

The superfield light cone gauge formulation of $\mathcal{N} =4$ SYM in plane wave background is developed. We find a realization of superconformal symmetries in terms of a light cone superfield. An oscillator realization of superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 R. R. Metsaev

We study a 4d gauge theory $U(1)^{N-1}\rtimes S_N$ obtained from a $U(1)^{N-1}$ theory by gauging a 0-form symmetry $S_N$. We show that this theory has a global continuous 2-category symmetry, whose structure is particularly rich for $N>2$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Andrea Antinucci , Giovanni Galati , Giovanni Rizi

In this paper we review recent results on symmetries in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Symmetries are of invaluable help in studying and constraining the scattering amplitudes, and there has been a lot of progress in recent years concerning…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 L. Ferro

In this paper we provide a detailed account of our calculation, briefly reported in arXiv:2209.09263, of a two-particle form factor of the lowest components of the stress-tensor multiplet in N=4 sYM theory on its Coulomb branch, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-30 A. V. Belitsky , L. V. Bork , V. A. Smirnov

We compute analytically the matter-dependent contributions to the quartic Casimir term of the four-loop light-like cusp anomalous dimension in QCD, with $n_f$ fermion and $n_s$ scalar flavours. The result is extracted from the double pole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 Johannes M. Henn , Tiziano Peraro , Maximilian Stahlhofen , Pascal Wasser

We study $\frac{1}{4}$-BPS Wilson loops in four-dimensional SU$(N$) ${\mathcal{N}}=2$ super-Yang-Mills theories with conformal matter in an arbitrary representation $\mathcal{R}$. These operators are formed of two meridians on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Luca Griguolo , Luigi Guerrini , Alessandro Testa

One-loop scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) theories are analyzed in the paradigm of maximal helicity violating Feynman diagrams. There are very limited number of loop integrals to be evaluated. For a process with n…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Mingxing Luo , Congkao Wen

Matrix model describing the anomalous dimensions of composite operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang--Mills theory up to one-loop level is considered at finite temperature. We compute the thermal effective action for this model, which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Corneliu Sochichiu

Planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory appears to be perturbatively integrable. This work reviews integrability in terms of a Yangian algebra and compares the application to the problems of anomalous dimensions and scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Niklas Beisert

We calculate form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at tree level and one loop using novel applications of recursion relations and unitarity. In particular, we determine the expression of the one-loop form factors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

The use of supersymmetric localisation has recently led to modular covariant expressions for certain integrated correlators of half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with a general classical gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Daniele Dorigoni , Michael B. Green , Congkao Wen , Haitian Xie

Integral invariants in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories are discussed in spacetime dimensions $4\leq D\leq 10$ for $SU(k)$ gauge groups. It is shown that, in addition to the action, there are three special invariants in all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Bossard , P. S. Howe , U. Lindstrom , K. S. Stelle , L. Wulff

We study a general class of supersymmetric Wilson loops operator in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory, obtained as orbits of conformal transformations. These loops are the natural generalization of the familiar circular Wilson-Maldacena…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Valentina Cardinali , Luca Griguolo , Domenico Seminara

In the first part of this thesis, we study form factors of general gauge-invariant local composite operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory at various loop orders and for various numbers of external legs. We show how to use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-04 Matthias Wilhelm

We study a non-perturbative formulation of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) on RxS^3 proposed in arXiv:0807.2352. This formulation is based on the large-N reduction, and the theory can be described as a particular large-N limit of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Goro Ishiki , Shinji Shimasaki , Asato Tsuchiya