Simplicity of polygon Wilson loops in N = 4 SYM

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2010)050zbMATH Open1269.81083arXiv0910.4898OpenAlexW2105852829WikidataQ58325968 ScholiaQ58325968MaRDI QIDQ359230FDOQ359230

Authors: Andreas Brandhuber, Valentin V. Khoze, Gabriele Travaglini, P. J. Heslop 

Publication date: 9 August 2013

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

Abstract: Wilson loops with lightlike polygonal contours have been conjectured to be equivalent to MHV scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. We compute such Wilson loops for special polygonal contours at two loops in perturbation theory. Specifically, we concentrate on the remainder function R, obtained by subtracting the known ABDK/BDS ansatz from the Wilson loop. First, we consider a particular two-dimensional eight-point kinematics studied at strong coupling by Alday and Maldacena. We find numerical evidence that R is the same at weak and at strong coupling, up to an overall, coupling-dependent constant. This suggests a universality of the remainder function at strong and weak coupling for generic null polygonal Wilson loops, and therefore for arbitrary MHV amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. We analyse the consequences of this statement. We further consider regular n-gons, and find that the remainder function is linear in n at large n through numerical computations performed up to n=30. This reproduces a general feature of the corresponding strong-coupling result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4898

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zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceextended supersymmetrysupersymmetry and dualityduality in Gauge field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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