Amplitudes at strong coupling as hyperk\"ahler scalars

arXiv2306.17044MaRDI QIDQ6442014FDOQ6442014

Authors: Hadleigh Frost, Ömer Gürdoğan, L. J. Mason 

Publication date: 29 June 2023

Abstract: Alday & Maldacena conjectured an equivalence between string amplitudes in AdS${}_{5}imes{S}^5$ fixed by null polygonal boundaries in Minkowski-space with both amplitudes and Wilson loops in planar $mathcalN=4$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM). At strong coupling this leads to an identification of SYM amplitudes with areas of minimal surfaces in AdS. Together with Gaiotto, Sever & Vieira, they introduced a `Y-system' for computing this area. We first establish a correspondence between Y-systems and twistor spaces that will apply more generally, and which, in the cases considered here determine a geometry on the space of kinematic data. In the case of minimal surfaces in AdS${}_3$ with boundaries on null polygons with $4k+2$ edges, we show that the geometry in question is a split signature pseudo-hyperk"ahler structures and that the remainder function for the amplitude is a Plebanski scalar that generates the geometry. This geometry leads to explicit overdetermined completely integrable systems of differential equations for the area, and we also give its Lax system.

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