Conformal Ward identities for Wilson loops and a test of the duality with gluon amplitudes

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.10.013zbMATH Open1203.81175arXiv0712.1223OpenAlexW2076329426MaRDI QIDQ620653FDOQ620653

Authors: Gregory P. Korchemsky, Emery Sokatchev, J. M. Drummond, Johannes Henn 

Publication date: 19 January 2011

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

Abstract: Planar gluon amplitudes in N=4 SYM are remarkably similar to expectation values of Wilson loops made of light-like segments. We argue that the latter can be determined by making use of the conformal symmetry of the gauge theory, broken by cusp anomalies. We derive the corresponding anomalous conformal Ward identities valid to all loops and show that they uniquely fix the form of the finite part of a Wilson loop with n cusps (up to an additive constant) for n=4 and n=5 and reduce the freedom in it to a function of conformal invariants for n>=6. We also present an explicit two-loop calculation for n=5. The result confirms the form predicted by the Ward identities and exactly matches the finite part of the two-loop five-gluon planar MHV amplitude. This constitutes another non-trivial test of the Wilson loop/gluon amplitude duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1223

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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