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Antipodal Self-Duality for a Four-Particle Form Factor

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-12-03 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We bootstrap the symbol of the maximal-helicity-violating four-particle form factor for the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super-Yang-Mills theory at two loops. When minimally normalized, this symbol involves only 34 letters and obeys the extended Steinmann relations in all partially-overlapping three-particle momentum channels. In addition, the remainder function for this form factor exhibits an antipodal self-duality: it is invariant under the combined operation of the antipodal map defined on multiple polylogarithms -- which reverses the order of the symbol letters -- and a simple kinematic map. This self-duality holds on a four-dimensional parity-preserving kinematic hypersurface. It implies the antipodal duality recently noticed between the three-particle form factor and the six-particle amplitude in this theory.

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@article{arxiv.2212.02410,
  title  = {Antipodal Self-Duality for a Four-Particle Form Factor},
  author = {Lance J. Dixon and Ömer Gürdoğan and Yu-Ting Liu and Andrew J. McLeod and Matthias Wilhelm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02410},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure and 1 table. v2: minor clarifications, references added, journal version. v3: ancillary file containing 3 loop symbol added

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