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In this note we investigate Gra{\ss}mannian formulas for form factors of the chiral part of the stress-tensor multiplet in $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal Yang-Mills theory. We present an all-$n$ contour for the $G(3,n+2)$ Gra{\ss}mannian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 David Meidinger , Dhritiman Nandan , Brenda Penante , Congkao Wen

We study the S-matrix of planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory when external momenta are restricted to a two-dimensional subspace of Minkowski space. We find significant simplifications and new, interesting structures for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Simon Caron-Huot , Song He

We compute the even part of the two-loop seven-point planar MHV amplitude in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We find that the even part is expressed in terms of conformal integrals with simple rational coefficients. We also compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 C. Vergu

This article reviews the recent progress in twistor approaches to Wilson loops, amplitudes and their duality for N=4 super Yang-Mills. Wilson loops and amplitudes are derived from first principles using the twistor action for maximally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tim Adamo , Mathew Bullimore , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

Some time ago the general tree-level scattering amplitudes of N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory were expressed as certain Grassmannian contour integrals. These remarkable formulas allow to clearly expose the super-conformal, dual super-conformal,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Matthias Staudacher

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 John Golden , Andrew J. McLeod

It is well known that gravity amplitudes in four dimensions can be reconstructed by the inverse soft limit (ISL) method. According to ISL, a tree level $n$-graviton maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) amplitude is expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Shiquan Ma , Rongyu Dong , Yi-Jian Du

In this article we review, for a mathematical audience, the computation of (tree-level) scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory in detail, in order to bridge the gap in understanding of the subject between mathematicians and physicists.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 Shounak De , Dmitrii Pavlov , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We derive compact analytical formulae for all tree-level color-ordered gauge theory amplitudes involving any number of external gluons and up to three massless quark-anti-quark pairs. A general formula is presented based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-24 Lance J. Dixon , Johannes M. Henn , Jan Plefka , Theodor Schuster

We present a geometric derivation of all-multiplicity (single-trace) tree-level Einstein Yang-Mills (EYM) amplitudes ${\cal A}(n;r)$ involving $n$ gluons and $r$ gravitons by a bilinear of two twisted differential forms on the moduli space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Pouria Mazloumi , Stephan Stieberger

We use the hexagon function bootstrap to compute the ratio function which characterizes the next-to-maximally-helicity-violating (NMHV) six-point amplitude in planar $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at four loops. A powerful…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-29 Lance J. Dixon , Matt von Hippel , Andrew J. McLeod

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

Self-dual spacetimes can be thought of as spacetimes containing only positive helicity gravitons. In this work we give a perturbiner expansion for self-dual spacetimes based on Pleba\'nski's second heavenly equation. The expansion is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Noah Miller

Kinematic numerators of Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes possess a rich Lie algebraic structure that suggest the existence of a hidden infinite-dimensional kinematic algebra. Explicitly realizing such a kinematic algebra is a longstanding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Gang Chen , Henrik Johansson , Fei Teng , Tianheng Wang

Recently, tree-level recursion relations for scattering amplitudes of gluons in Yang-Mills theory have been derived. In this note we propose a generalization of the recursion relations to tree-level scattering amplitudes of gravitons. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Freddy Cachazo , Peter Svrcek

We prove that the MHV vertex expansion is valid for any NMHV tree amplitude of N=4 SYM. The proof uses induction to show that there always exists a complex deformation of three external momenta such that the amplitude falls off at least as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Henriette Elvang , Daniel Z. Freedman , Michael Kiermaier

Using the recently introduced recursion relations with covariant massive-massless shift, we study tree-level scattering amplitudes involving a pair of massive vector bosons and an arbitrary number of gluons in the massive spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Sourav Ballav , Arkajyoti Manna

In this PhD thesis we extend the twistor formalism to encompass (partially) off-shell quantities. We describe all gauge-invariant local composite operators in twistor space and show that they immediately generate all tree-level form factors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-21 Laura Koster

It is well-known that perturbative calculations in field theory can lead to far simpler answers than the Feynman diagram approach might suggest. In some cases scattering amplitudes can be constructed for processes with any desired number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-10-31 James Bedford

The loop expansion for the n-point functions of N=4 Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity can be formulated as the loop expansion of scalar field theory with an infinite subclass being the ladder diagrams. We consider the sum of ladder…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-10 Howard J. Schnitzer