Evolution of light-like Wilson loops with a self-intersection in loop space

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.11.011MaRDI QIDQ5963914zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas G. Mertens, P. Taels

Publication date 26 February 2016

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5296

zbMATH Keywords

loop spaceWilson loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

Abstract: Recently, we proposed a general evolution equation for single quadrilateral Wilson loop on the light-cone. In present work, we study the energy evolution of a combination of two such loops that partially overlap or have a self-intersection. We show that, for a class of geometric variations, then evolution is consistent with our previous conjecture, and we are able to handle the intricacies associated with the self-intersections and overlaps. This way, a step forward is made towards the understanding of loop space, with the hope of studying more complicated structures appearing in phenomenological relevant objects, such as parton distributions.

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