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We compute the leading (first-type Landau) singularities of a certain four-loop 7-point graph that is related to the 7-point ``ziggurat'' graph by the graphical moves familiar from equivalent circuit theory. We find perfect agreement with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-02 Luke Lippstreu , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

This article reviews recent progress in formulating double-copy constructions for scattering amplitudes in supergravity theories with N=2 supersymmetry in five and four spacetime dimensions. Particular attention is devoted to infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-15 Marco Chiodaroli

We report on progress in understanding how to construct color-dual multi-loop amplitudes. First we identify a cubic theory, semi-abelian Yang-Mills, that unifies many of the color-dual theories studied in the literature, and provides a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-29 Alex Edison , James Mangan , Nicolas H. Pavao

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 describe a general algorithm which builds on several pieces of data available in the literature to construct explicit analytic formulas for two-loop MHV amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. The non-classical part of an amplitude is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 John Golden , Marcus Spradlin

We revisit the familiar construction of one-loop scattering amplitudes via generalized unitarity in light of the recently understood properties of loop integrands prior to their integration. We show how in any four-dimensional quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-21 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Simon Caron-Huot , Jaroslav Trnka

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 study the elliptic double-box integral, which contributes to generic massless QFTs and is the only contribution to a particular 10-point scattering amplitude in N=4 SYM theory. Based on a Feynman parametrization, we express this integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-07 Alexander Kristensson , Matthias Wilhelm , Chi Zhang

In a recent note we presented a compact formula for the complete tree-level S-matrix of pure Yang-Mills and gravity theories in arbitrary spacetime dimension. In this paper we show that a natural formulation also exists for a massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Freddy Cachazo , Song He , Ellis Ye Yuan

Tensoring two on-shell super Yang-Mills multiplets in dimensions $D\leq 10$ yields an on-shell supergravity multiplet, possibly with additional matter multiplets. Associating a (direct sum of) division algebra(s) $\mathbb{D}$ with each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-02 A. Anastasiou , L. Borsten , M. J. Hughes , S. Nagy

We describe a Schubert induction theorem, a tool for analyzing intersections on a Grassmannian over an arbitrary base ring. The key ingredient in the proof is the Geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule, described in a companion paper.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ravi Vakil

We investigate positivity properties in quantum field theory (QFT). We provide evidence,and in some case proofs, that many building blocks of scattering amplitudes, and in some cases the full amplitudes, satisfy an infinite number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-17 Johannes Henn , Prashanth Raman

We consider superstring sigma models that are based on coset superspaces G/H in which H arises as the fixed point set of an order-4 automorphism of G. We show by means of twistor theory that the corresponding first-order system, consisting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-17 Martin Wolf

We investigate the relation between 4d ambitwistor string theory and on-shell diagrams for planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills and N=8 supergravity, and deduce several new results about their scattering amplitudes at tree-level and 1-loop. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein

Recently a reformulation of the MHV diagram method in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in momentum twistor space was presented and was shown to be equivalent to the perturbative expansion of the expectation value of a supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

All four-point mixed gluon-graviton amplitudes in pure Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with at most one state of negative helicity are computed at one-loop order and maximal powers of the gauge coupling using D-dimensional generalized unitarity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Dhritiman Nandan , Jan Plefka , Gabriele Travaglini

Null Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills are dual to planar scattering amplitudes. This duality implies hidden symmetries for both objects. We consider closely related infrared finite observables, defined as the Wilson loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-14 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes M. Henn

This is the first in a series of papers presenting a new understanding of scattering amplitudes based on fundamentally combinatorial ideas in the kinematic space of the scattering data. We study the simplest theory of colored scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 N. Arkani-Hamed , H. Frost , G. Salvatori , P-G. Plamondon , H. Thomas

Form factors of the stress-tensor multiplet operator in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills reveal surprisingly simple structures similar to those appearing in scattering amplitudes. In this paper we show that, as for the case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 Lorenzo Bianchi , Andreas Brandhuber , Rodolfo Panerai , Gabriele Travaglini

We compute the six-dimensional hexagon integral with three non-adjacent external masses analytically. After a simple rescaling, it is given by a function of six dual conformally invariant cross-ratios. The result can be expressed as a sum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Vittorio Del Duca , Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Claude Duhr , Johannes M. Henn , Vladimir A. Smirnov