Scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops in twistor space

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/45/454008zbMATH Open1270.81129arXiv1104.2890OpenAlexW3105911447WikidataQ56020198 ScholiaQ56020198MaRDI QIDQ3102292FDOQ3102292

Mathew Bullimore, Tim Adamo, L. J. Mason, D. Skinner

Publication date: 2 December 2011

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This article reviews the recent progress in twistor approaches to Wilson loops, amplitudes and their duality for N=4 super Yang-Mills. Wilson loops and amplitudes are derived from first principles using the twistor action for maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We start by deriving the MHV rules for gauge theory amplitudes from the twistor action in an axial gauge in twistor space, and show that this gives rise to the original momentum space version given by Cachazo, Svrcek and Witten. We then go on to obtain from these the construction of the momentum twistor space loop integrand using (planar) MHV rules and show how it arises as the expectation value of a holomorphic Wilson loop in twistor space. We explain the connection between the holomorphic Wilson loop and certain light-cone limits of correlation functions. We give a brief review of other ideas in connection with amplitudes in twistor space: twistor-strings, recursion in twistor space, the Grassmannian residue formula for leading singularities and amplitudes as polytopes. This article is an invited review for a special issue of Journal of Physics A devoted to `Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theories'.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2890

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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