New differential equations for on-shell loop integrals

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2011)083zbMATH Open1250.81064arXiv1010.3679OpenAlexW2103836394WikidataQ59270323 ScholiaQ59270323MaRDI QIDQ715567FDOQ715567

Authors: J. M. Drummond, Johannes Henn, Jaroslav Trnka 

Publication date: 29 October 2012

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

Abstract: We present a novel type of differential equations for on-shell loop integrals. The equations are second-order and importantly, they reduce the loop level by one, so that they can be solved iteratively in the loop order. We present several infinite series of integrals satisfying such iterative differential equations. The differential operators we use are best written using momentum twistor space. The use of the latter was advocated in recent papers discussing loop integrals in N=4 super Yang-Mills. One of our motivations is to provide a tool for deriving analytical results for scattering amplitudes in this theory. We show that the integrals needed for planar MHV amplitudes up to two loops can be thought of as deriving from a single master topology. The master integral satisfies our differential equations, and so do most of the reduced integrals. A consequence of the differential equations is that the integrals we discuss are not arbitrarily complicated transcendental functions. For two specific two-loop integrals we give the full analytic solution. The simplicity of the integrals appearing in the scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills is strongly suggestive of a relation to the conjectured underlying integrability of the theory. We expect these differential equations to be relevant for all planar MHV and non-MHV amplitudes. We also discuss possible extensions of our method to more general classes of integrals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3679

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathcal N = 4\) super Yang-Mills theorieson-shell loop integrals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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