Conformal anomaly of super Wilson loop

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2012.04.022zbMATH Open1246.81105arXiv1201.6073OpenAlexW2014314647MaRDI QIDQ447402FDOQ447402

A. V. Belitsky

Publication date: 3 September 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Classically supersymmetric Wilson loop on a null polygonal contour possesses all symmetries required to match it onto non-MHV amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. However, to define it quantum mechanically, one is forced to regularize it since perturbative loop diagrams are not well-defined due to presence of ultraviolet divergences stemming from integration in the vicinity of the cusps. A regularization that is adopted by practitioners by allowing one to use spinor helicity formalism, on the one hand, and systematically go to higher orders of perturbation theory is based on a version of dimensional regularization, known as Four-Dimensional Helicity scheme. Recently it was demonstrated that its use for the super Wilson loop at one loop breaks both conformal symmetry and Poincare supersymmetry. Presently, we exhibit the origin for these effects and demonstrate how one can undo this breaking. The phenomenon is alike the one emerging in renormalization group mixing of conformal operators in conformal theories when one uses dimensional regularization. The rotation matrix to the diagonal basis is found by means of computing the anomaly in the Ward identity for the conformal boost. Presently, we apply this ideology to the super Wilson loop. We compute the one-loop conformal anomaly for the super Wilson loop and find that the anomaly depends on its Grassmann coordinates. By subtracting this anomalous contribution from the super Wilson loop we restore its interpretation as a dual description for reduced non-MHV amplitudes which are expressed in terms of superconformal invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6073

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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) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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• Superpropagator and superconformal invariants
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• Smooth Wilson loops in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) non-chiral superspace
• Bonus symmetry for super Wilson loops
• Super Wilson Loops and Holonomy on Supermanifolds
• Quantum mechanics of null polygonal Wilson loops

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