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In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. For the off-shell amplitudes with one leg off-shell we present a conjecture for their Grassmannian integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko

Evidence has recently emerged for a hidden symmetry of scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory called dual conformal symmetry. At weak coupling the presence of this symmetry has been observed through five loops, while at strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dung Nguyen , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Over the past two years, the use of on-shell techniques has deepened our understanding of the S-matrix of gauge theories and led to the calculation of many new scattering amplitudes. In these notes we review a particular on-shell method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini

In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM with arbitrary number of off-shell gluons or equivalently Wilson line operator insertions. We make a conjecture for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-20 L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko

A novel understanding of scattering amplitudes in terms of on-shell diagrams and positive Grassmannian has been recently established for four dimensional Yang-Mills theories and three dimensional Chern-Simons theories of ABJM type. We give…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Joonho Kim , Sangmin Lee

A dual formulation of the S Matrix for N=4 SYM has recently been presented, where all leading singularities of n-particle N^{k-2}MHV amplitudes are given as an integral over the Grassmannian G(k,n), with cyclic symmetry, parity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung

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 on-shell and integrability methods that have been developed in the context of scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory to tree-level form factors of this theory. Focussing on the colour-ordered super form factors of the chiral part…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-02 Rouven Frassek , David Meidinger , Dhritiman Nandan , Matthias Wilhelm

A new way of computing scattering amplitudes in a certain very important QFT (N=4 SYM) has recently been developed, in which an algebraic structure called the positive Grassmannian plays a very important role. The mathematics of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-06 Alvaro M. Alhambra

Scattering amplitudes in 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) can be described by Grassmannian contour integrals whose form depends on whether the external data is encoded in momentum space, twistor space, or momentum twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Henriette Elvang , Yu-tin Huang , Cynthia Keeler , Thomas Lam , Timothy M. Olson , Samuel B. Roland , David E. Speyer

MHV diagrams give an efficient Feynman diagram-like formalism for calculating gauge theory scattering amplitudes on momentum space. Although they arise as the Feynman diagrams from an action on twistor space in an axial gauge, the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason

Maximally supersymmetric field theories in various dimensions are believed to possess special properties due to extended supersymmetry. In four dimensions they are free from UV divergences but are IR divergent on shell, in higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-25 D. I. Kazakov , L. V. Bork , A. T. Borlakov , D. M. Tolkachev , D. E. Vlasenko

We study the geometry underlying the Wilson loop diagram approach to calculating scattering amplitudes in the gauge theory of Supersymmetric Yang Mills (SYM) $N=4$. By applying the tools developed to study total positivity in the real…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Susama Agarwala , Sian Fryer

Attached to both Yang-Mills and General Relativity about Minkowski spacetime are distinguished gauge independent objects known as the on-shell tree scattering amplitudes. We reinterpret and rigorously construct them as $L_\infty$ minimal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Andrea Nützi , Michael Reiterer

All-loop planar scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory can be formulated geometrically in terms of the "amplituhedron". We study the mathematical structures of the one-loop amplituhedron, and present a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Yuntao Bai , Song He , Thomas Lam

Various classes of fishnet Feynman graphs are shown to feature a Yangian symmetry over the conformal algebra. We explicitly discuss scalar graphs in three, four and six spacetime dimensions as well as the inclusion of fermions in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-08 Dmitry Chicherin , Vladimir Kazakov , Florian Loebbert , Dennis Müller , De-liang Zhong

This article revisits and elaborates the significant role of positive geometry of momentum twistor Grassmannian for planar N=4 SYM scattering amplitudes. First we establish the fundamentals of positive Grassmannian geometry for tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-11 Junjie Rao

An on-shell formalism for the computation of S-matrices of SYM theories in three spacetime dimensions is presented. The framework is a generalization of the spinor-helicity formalism in four dimensions. The formalism is applied to establish…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-03 Abhishek Agarwal , Donovan Young

Non-linear sigma models with extended supersymmetry have constrained target space geometries, and can serve as effective tools for investigating and constructing new geometries. Analyzing the geometrical and topological properties of sigma…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-12 Malin Göteman

In addition to the superconformal symmetry of the underlying Lagrangian, the scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory exhibit a new, dual superconformal symmetry. We address the question of how powerful these symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-17 G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev