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Title: Bootstrapping a five-loop amplitude using Steinmann relations

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark); McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  4. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)

Here, the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes is restricted by Steinmann relations, which enforce the vanishing of certain discontinuities of discontinuities. We show that these relations dramatically simplify the function space for the hexagon function bootstrap in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Armed with this simplification, along with the constraints of dual conformal symmetry and Regge exponentiation, we obtain the complete five-loop six-particle amplitude.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; AC02–76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1327480
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1334356
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16811; PRLTAO; arXiv:1609.00669
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 24; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 144 works
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