Tales of 1001 gluons

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSREP.2017.01.004MaRDI QIDQ2364237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Weinzierl

Publication date 18 July 2017

Published in Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05318

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: These lectures are centred around tree-level scattering amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theories, the most prominent example is given by the tree-level gluon amplitudes of QCD. I will discuss several ways of computing these amplitudes, illustrating in this way recent developments in perturbative quantum field theory. Topics covered in these lectures include colour decomposition, spinor and twistor methods, off- and on-shell recursion, MHV amplitudes and MHV expansion, the Grassmannian and the amplituhedron, the scattering equations and the CHY representation. At the end of these lectures there will be an outlook on the relation between pure Yang-Mills amplitudes and scattering amplitudes in perturbative quantum gravity.

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• Anatomy of the amplituhedron
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• Cluster polylogarithms for scattering amplitudes
• Cohomology and massless fields
• Color-kinematics duality for QCD amplitudes
• Color/kinematics duality for general abelian orbifolds of \( \mathcal{N}=4\) super Yang-Mills theory
• Computation of contour integrals on \( \mathcal{M}_{0,n} \)
• Conservation of isotopic spin and isotopic gauge invariance
• Construction of an effective Yang-Mills Lagrangian with manifest BCJ duality
• Diagrammatic insights into next-to-soft corrections
• Differential equations and dispersion relations for Feynman amplitudes. The two-loop massive sunrise and the kite integral
• Differential equations for two-loop four-point functions.
• Disk scattering of open and closed strings (I)
• Dual superconformal symmetry of scattering amplitudes in \({\mathcal N}=4\) super-Yang-Mills theory
• Eliminating spurious poles from gauge-theoretic amplitudes
• Elimination and recursions in the scattering equations
• Elliptic multiple zeta values and one-loop superstring amplitudes
• Elliptic scattering equations
• Evidence for a nonplanar amplituhedron
• FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• Five-loop Konishi in \(\mathcal{N}=4\) SYM
• From correlation functions to Wilson loops
• From twistor actions to MHV diagrams
• Graviton amplitudes from collinear limits of gauge amplitudes
• Graviton as a pair of collinear Gauge bosons
• HARMONIC POLYLOGARITHMS
• HARMONIC SUMS, MELLIN TRANSFORMS AND INTEGRALS
• INTRODUCTION TO YANGIAN SYMMETRY IN INTEGRABLE FIELD THEORY
• Infinite tension limit of the pure spinor superstring
• Infrared behaviour of the one-loop scattering equations and supergravity integrands
• Integration rules for loop scattering equations
• KLT and new relations for \(\mathcal{N} = 8\) SUGRA and \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) SYM
• Lectures on differential equations for Feynman integrals
• Local spacetime physics from the Grassmannian
• Manifesting color-kinematics duality in the scattering equation formalism
• Mass Singularities of Feynman Amplitudes
• Massless scattering at special kinematics as Jacobi polynomials
• Multiple polylogarithms, cyclotomy and modular complexes
• Multiple zeta values and periods of moduli spaces \(\bar {\mathfrak M}_{0,n}\).
• Nested sums, expansion of transcendental functions, and multiscale multiloop integrals
• New recursion relations for tree amplitudes of gluons
• New representations of the perturbative \(S\) matrix
• On planar gluon amplitudes/Wilson loops duality
• On tree amplitudes with gluons coupled to gravitons
• Picard-Fuchs equations for Feynman integrals
• Positive amplitudes in the amplituhedron
• Proof of a new colour decomposition for QCD amplitudes
• Proof of the fundamental BCJ relations for QCD amplitudes
• Pure gravities via color-kinematics duality for fundamental matter
• Quantum Field Theory
• Quantum Theory of Gravity. I. The Canonical Theory
• Scattering amplitudes and BCFW recursion in twistor space
• Scattering amplitudes in \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) Maxwell-Einstein and Yang-Mills/Einstein supergravity
• Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories
• Scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity
• Scattering equations and Feynman diagrams
• Schouten identities for Feynman graph amplitudes: The Master Integrals for the two-loop massive sunrise graph
• Simple recursion relations for general field theories
• Special values of multiple polylogarithms
• Subleading terms in the collinear limit of Yang-Mills amplitudes
• The Grassmannian and the twistor string: connecting all trees in \({\mathcal N} = 4\) SYM
• The Lagrangian origin of MHV rules
• The MHV Lagrangian for a spontaneously broken gauge theory
• The S-matrix in twistor space
• The Yangian origin of the Grassmannian integral
• The amplituhedron
• The amplituhedron from momentum twistor diagrams
• The box integrals in momentum-twistor geometry
• The complete KLT-map between gravity and gauge theories
• The elliptic dilogarithm for the sunset graph
• The four-loop remainder function and multi-Regge behavior at NNLLA in planar \( \mathcal{N} = 4\) super-Yang-Mills theory
• The iterated structure of the all-order result for the two-loop sunrise integral
• The one-loop six-dimensional hexagon integral and its relation to MHV amplitudes in \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) SYM
• The two-loop sunrise graph in two space-time dimensions with arbitrary masses in terms of elliptic dilogarithms
• The two-loop sunrise graph with arbitrary masses
• The two-loop sunrise integral around four space-time dimensions and generalisations of the Clausen and Glaisher functions towards the elliptic case
• Twistor transform of all tree amplitudes in \({\mathcal N}=4\) SYM theory
• Unification of residues and Grassmannian dualities
• Yangians, Grassmannians and T-duality
• \(\Lambda\) scattering equations
• \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) scattering amplitudes and the deformed Graßmannian

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• Worldline description of a bi-adjoint scalar and the zeroth copy
• Ambitwistor strings and Reggeon amplitudes in \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) SYM
• Classical and quantum double copy of back-reaction
• Properties of scattering forms and their relation to associahedra
• Color-kinematics duality for Sudakov form factor in non-supersymmetric pure Yang–Mills theory
• Amplitudes in fishnet theories in diverse dimensions and box ladder diagrams
• The all-loop conjecture for integrands of Reggeon amplitudes in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) SYM
• Unraveling conformal gravity amplitudes
• Amplitudes, recursion relations and unitarity in the abelian Higgs model
• Prescriptive unitarity
• UV divergences, RG equations and high energy behaviour of the amplitudes in the Wess-Zumino model with quartic interaction
• Gluons for (almost) nothing, gravitons for free
• New relation for Witten diagrams
• Infrared properties of five-point massive amplitudes in \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) SYM on the Coulomb branch

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