Hexagon Wilson loop OPE and harmonic polylogarithms

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2013)150zbMATH Open1342.81610arXiv1310.5735WikidataQ60140134 ScholiaQ60140134MaRDI QIDQ737746FDOQ737746

Authors: Georgios Papathanasiou 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: A recent, integrability-based conjecture in the framework of the Wilson loop OPE for N=4 SYM theory, predicts the leading OPE contribution for the hexagon MHV remainder function and NMHV ratio function to all loops, in integral form. We prove that these integrals evaluate to a particular basis of harmonic polylogarithms, at any order in the weak coupling expansion. The proof constitutes an algorithm for the direct computation of the integrals, which we employ in order to obtain the full (N)MHV OPE contribution in question up to 6 loops, and certain parts of it up to 12 loops. We attach computer-readable files with our results, as well as an algorithm implementation which may be readily used to generate higher-loop corrections. The feasibility of obtaining the explicit kinematical dependence of the first term in the OPE in principle at arbitrary loop order, offers promise for the suitability of this approach as a non-perturbative description of Wilson loops/scattering amplitudes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5735

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zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondencescattering amplitudessupersymmetric gauge theoryWilson, 't Hooft and Polyakov loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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Cited In (24)

• A Young diagram expansion of the hexagonal Wilson loop (amplitude) in \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) SYM
• Singularities of eight- and nine-particle amplitudes from cluster algebras and tropical geometry
• Multi-Regge kinematics and the moduli space of Riemann spheres with marked points
• The four-loop remainder function and multi-Regge behavior at NNLLA in planar \( \mathcal{N} = 4\) super-Yang-Mills theory
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• OPE for super loops
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Uses Software

• HPL

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