The complete planar S-matrix of N = 4 SYM as a Wilson loop in twistor space

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2010)018zbMATH Open1294.81122arXiv1009.2225MaRDI QIDQ407083FDOQ407083

Authors: D. Skinner, L. J. Mason 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

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

Abstract: We propose that the complete planar S-matrix of N=4 super Yang-Mills - including all N^kMHV partial amplitudes to all loops - is equivalent to the correlation function of a supersymmetric Wilson loop in twistor space. Remarkably, the entire classical S-matrix arises from evaluating the correlation function in the self-dual sector, while the expansion of the correlation function in powers of the Yang-Mills coupling constant provides the loop expansion of the amplitudes. We support our proposal with explicit computations of the n particle NMHV and NNMHV trees, the integrands of the 1-loop MHV and NMHV amplitudes, and the n particle 2-loop MHV amplitude. These calculations are performed using the twistor action in axial gauge. In this gauge, the Feynman diagrams of the correlation function are the planar duals of the usual MHV diagrams for the scattering amplitude. The results are presented in the form of a sum of products of dual superconformal invariants in (momentum) twistor space, and agree with the expressions derived in arXiv:1009.1854 directly from the MHV rules. The twistor space Wilson loop is a natural supersymmetric generalization of the standard Wilson loop used to compute MHV amplitudes. We show how the Penrose-Ward transform can be used to determine a corresponding supersymmetrization on space-time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2225

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zbMATH Keywords

1/N expansionsupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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