A surprise in the amplitude/Wilson loop duality

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2010)080zbMATH Open1290.81058arXiv1004.2855WikidataQ60660943 ScholiaQ60660943MaRDI QIDQ2014959FDOQ2014959

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 17 June 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: One of the many remarkable features of MHV scattering amplitudes is their conjectured equality to lightlike polygon Wilson loops, which apparently holds at all orders in perturbation theory as well as non-perturbatively. This duality is usually expressed in terms of purely four-dimensional quantities obtained by appropriate subtraction of the IR and UV divergences from amplitudes and Wilson loops respectively. In this paper we demonstrate, by explicit calculation, the completely unanticipated fact that the equality continues to hold at two loops through order epsilon in dimensional regularization for both the four-particle amplitude and the (parity-even part of the) five-particle amplitude.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2855

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceduality in gauge field theoriesextended supersymmetrysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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Uses Software

• Cuba
• Hypexp
• HPL
• MBasymptotics
• MBresolve

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