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Harmony of Super Form Factors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-11-01 v2

Abstract

In this paper we continue our systematic study of form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills. In particular, we extend various techniques known for amplitudes to the case of form factors, including MHV rules, recursion relations, unitarity and dual MHV rules. As an application, we present the solution of the recursion relation for split-helicity form factors. We then consider form factors of the stress-tensor multiplet operator and of its chiral truncation, and write down supersymmetric Ward identities using chiral as well as non-chiral superspace formalisms. This allows us to obtain compact formulae for families of form factors, such as the maximally non-MHV case. Finally we generalise dual MHV rules in dual momentum space to form factors.

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@article{arxiv.1107.5067,
  title  = {Harmony of Super Form Factors},
  author = {Andreas Brandhuber and Omer Gurdogan and Robert Mooney and Gabriele Travaglini and Gang Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.5067},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

1+42 pages, 18 figures; v2. affiliation updated, typo fixed

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