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We compute four-point functions with two maximal giant gravitons and two chiral primary operators at three-loop order in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super-Yang-Mills theory. The Lagrangian insertion method, together with symmetries of the theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Yunfeng Jiang , Yu Wu , Yang Zhang

Morse-Smale-Floer homology associates the critical points of the action functional of a classical field theory over a manifold to its homology. We associate to the intersection homology of certain Lagrangian submanifolds of R^4 the critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-18 Marco Bochicchio

The four-loop, two-point form factor contains the first non-planar correction to the lightlike cusp anomalous dimension. This anomalous dimension is a universal function which appears in many applications. Its planar part in N = 4 SYM is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-19 Rutger Boels , Bernd A. Kniehl , Gang Yang

We present a novel type of differential equations for on-shell loop integrals. The equations are second-order and importantly, they reduce the loop level by one, so that they can be solved iteratively in the loop order. We present several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 James M. Drummond , Johannes M. Henn , Jaroslav Trnka

The planar three-gluon form factor for the chiral stress tensor operator in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is an analog of the Higgs-to-three-gluon scattering amplitude in QCD. The amplitude (symbol) bootstrap program has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Tianji Cai , François Charton , Kyle Cranmer , Lance J. Dixon , Garrett W. Merz , Matthias Wilhelm

We present an explicit momentum space computation of the four-point function of the energy-momentum tensor in 4 spacetime dimensions for the free and conformally invariant theory of a scalar field. The result is obtained by explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Mirko Serino

In this review we discuss some recent developments related to one-loop N = 4 super Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes calculated to all orders in epsilon. It is often the case that one-loop gauge theory computations are carried out to order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Robert M. Schabinger

The superconformal Ward identities combined with N=2 harmonic analyticity are used to evaluate two-loop four-point correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in D=4, N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of the well-known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 B. Eden , P. S. Howe , C. Schubert , E. Sokatchev , P. C. West

While the achievements in the study of N=4 Super Yang-Mills through the application of integrability are impressive, the precise origins of the exact solvability remain shrouded in mystery. In this note, we propose that viewing the problem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-21 Laura Koster , Vladimir Mitev , Matthias Staudacher

Feynman integrals with generic propagator powers in one and two spacetime dimensions are investigated from various perspectives. In particular, we argue that the class of track integrals at any loop order is fixed by the recently found…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Gwenaël Ferrando , Florian Loebbert , Amelie Pitters , Sven F. Stawinski

We discuss the on-shell diagrammatic representation of theories less special than maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills. In particular, we focus on planar $\mathcal{N}\,\le\,2$ gauge theories, including pure Yang-Mills. For such a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Paolo Benincasa

We apply the analytic conformal bootstrap method to study weakly coupled conformal gauge theories in four dimensions. We employ twist conformal blocks to find the most general form of the one-loop four-point correlation function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Johan Henriksson , Tomasz Lukowski

We develop further an approach to computing energy-energy correlations (EEC) directly from finite correlation functions. In this way, one completely avoids infrared divergences. In maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory ($\mathcal{N}=4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Johannes M. Henn , Emery Sokatchev , Kai Yan , Alexander Zhiboedov

In this work we propose a simple algebraic recursion for the complete one-loop integrands of $N$-graviton correlators. This formula automatically yields the correct symmetry factors of individual diagrams, taking into account both the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas , Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos , Alexander Quintero Velez

We explore the space of non-gravitational, maximally supersymmetric, planar 4d effective field theories (EFTs) that have $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) at leading order. We show that in the weakly-coupled regime, highly non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Henriette Elvang , Aidan Herderschee , Roger Morales

We review the basic results concerning the structure of effective action in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in Coulomb phase. Various classical formulations of this theory are considered. We show that the low-energy effective action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. L. Buchbinder

Supersymmetric circular Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super-Yang-Mills theory are discussed starting from their Gaussian matrix model representations. Previous results on the generating functions of Wilson loops are reviewed and extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Wolfgang Mück

We introduce a new geometric object, the correlahedron, which we conjecture to be equivalent to stress-energy correlators in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills. Re-expressing the Grassmann dependence of correlation functions of n chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Lionel Mason

Supersymmetric integrands for the two-loop five-point amplitudes in ten-dimensional super Yang--Mills and type II supergravity are proposed. The kinematic numerators are manifestly local and satisfy the duality between color and kinematics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-05 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

Maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories have several remarkable properties, among which are the cancellation of UV divergences, factorization of higher loop corrections and possible integrability. Much attention has been attracted to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. V. Bork , D. I. Kazakov , D. E. Vlasenko