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Planar Amplitudes in Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/815610· OSTI ID:815610
The collinear factorization properties of two-loop scattering amplitudes in dimensionally-regulated N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory suggest that, in the planar ('t Hooft) limit, higher-loop contributions can be expressed entirely in terms of one-loop amplitudes. We demonstrate this relation explicitly for the two-loop four-point amplitude and, based on the collinear limits, conjecture an analogous relation for n-point amplitudes. The simplicity of the relation is consistent with intuition based on the AdS/CFT correspondence that the form of the large N{sub c} L-loop amplitudes should be simple enough to allow a resummation to all orders.
Research Organization:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
815610
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-10157
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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