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Analytic Results for MHV Wilson Loops

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We obtain concise analytic formulae for Wilson loops computed on special n-point polygonal contours through two-loops in weakly coupled N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory. The contours we consider can be embedded into a (1+1)-dimensional subspace of the 4-dimensional gauge theory, corresponding to the boundary of the AdS_3 on the string theory side. Our analytic results hold for any number of edges, thus generalising to arbitrary n the recently derived expressions for 2-dimensional octagons. These polygonal Wilson loops have been conjectured to be equivalent to MHV scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM.

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@article{arxiv.1007.1805,
  title  = {Analytic Results for MHV Wilson Loops},
  author = {Paul Heslop and Valentin V. Khoze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.1805},
  year   = {2010}
}

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20 pages, 6 figures

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