Prescriptive unitarity

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)059zbMATH Open1380.81388arXiv1704.05460OpenAlexW3037926971WikidataQ106762819 ScholiaQ106762819MaRDI QIDQ683151FDOQ683151

Jaroslav Trnka, Enrico Herrmann, Jacob L. Bourjaily

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a prescriptive approach to generalized unitarity, resulting in a strictly-diagonal basis of loop integrands with coefficients given by specifically-tailored residues in field theory. We illustrate the power of this strategy in the case of planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, where we construct closed-form representations of all ($n$-point N${}^k$MHV) scattering amplitudes through three loops. The prescriptive approach contrasts with the ordinary description of unitarity-based methods by avoiding any need for linear algebra to determine integrand coefficients. We describe this approach in general terms as it should have applications to many quantum field theories, including those without planarity, supersymmetry, or massless spectra defined in any number of dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05460

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zbMATH Keywords

\(1/N\) expansionextended supersymmetryscattering amplitudessupersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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Uses Software

• CutTools
• SAMURAI
• BlackHat
• two loop amplitudes
• positroids

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