Dual superconformal symmetry of scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.11.022zbMATH Open1203.81112arXiv0807.1095OpenAlexW1973074703MaRDI QIDQ620704FDOQ620704

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

Publication date: 19 January 2011

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

Abstract: We argue that the scattering amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory possess a new symmetry which extends the previously discovered dual conformal symmetry. To reveal this property we formulate the scattering amplitudes as functions in the appropriate dual superspace. Rewritten in this form, all tree-level MHV and next-to-MHV amplitudes exhibit manifest dual superconformal symmetry. We propose a new, compact and Lorentz covariant formula for the tree-level NMHV amplitudes for arbitrary numbers and types of external particles. The dual conformal symmetry is broken at loop level by infrared divergences. However, we provide evidence that the anomalous contribution to the MHV and NMHV superamplitudes is the same and, therefore, their ratio is a dual conformal invariant function. We identify this function by an explicit calculation of the six-particle amplitudes at one loop. We conjecture that these properties hold for all, MHV and non-MHV, superamplitudes in N=4 SYM both at weak and at strong coupling.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1095




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