Conical twist fields and null polygonal Wilson loops

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2018.04.002MaRDI QIDQ1637434zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo, Benjamin Doyon, Davide Fioravanti

Publication date 8 June 2018

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05980

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Abstract: Using an extension of the concept of twist field in QFT to space-time (external) symmetries, we study conical twist fields in two-dimensional integrable QFT. These create conical singularities of arbitrary excess angle. We show that, upon appropriate identification between the excess angle and the number of sheets, they have the same conformal dimension as branch-point twist fields commonly used to represent partition functions on Riemann surfaces, and that both fields have closely related form factors. However, we show that conical twist fields are truly different from branch-point twist fields. They generate different operator product expansions (short distance expansions) and form factor expansions (large distance expansions). In fact, we verify in free field theories, by re-summing form factors, that the conical twist fields operator product expansions are correctly reproduced. We propose that conical twist fields are the correct fields in order to understand null polygonal Wilson loops/gluon scattering amplitudes of planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.

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