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Title: Dual Conformal Structure Beyond the Planar Limit

Abstract

The planar scattering amplitudes of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory display symmetries and structures which underlie their relatively simple analytic properties such as having only logarithmic singularities and no poles at infinity. Recent work shows in various nontrivial examples that the simple analytic properties of the planar sector survive into the nonplanar sector, but this has yet to be understood from underlying symmetries. Here, we explicitly show that for an infinite class of nonplanar integrals that covers all subleading-color contributions to the two-loop four- and five-point amplitudes of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, symmetries analogous to dual conformal invariance exist. A natural conjecture is that this continues to all amplitudes of the theory at any loop order.

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Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1471787
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1498982
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0009937
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 121 Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Bern, Zvi, Enciso, Michael, Shen, Chia-Hsien, and Zeng, Mao. Dual Conformal Structure Beyond the Planar Limit. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.121603.
Bern, Zvi, Enciso, Michael, Shen, Chia-Hsien, & Zeng, Mao. Dual Conformal Structure Beyond the Planar Limit. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.121603
Bern, Zvi, Enciso, Michael, Shen, Chia-Hsien, and Zeng, Mao. Sat . "Dual Conformal Structure Beyond the Planar Limit". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.121603.
@article{osti_1471787,
title = {Dual Conformal Structure Beyond the Planar Limit},
author = {Bern, Zvi and Enciso, Michael and Shen, Chia-Hsien and Zeng, Mao},
abstractNote = {The planar scattering amplitudes of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory display symmetries and structures which underlie their relatively simple analytic properties such as having only logarithmic singularities and no poles at infinity. Recent work shows in various nontrivial examples that the simple analytic properties of the planar sector survive into the nonplanar sector, but this has yet to be understood from underlying symmetries. Here, we explicitly show that for an infinite class of nonplanar integrals that covers all subleading-color contributions to the two-loop four- and five-point amplitudes of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, symmetries analogous to dual conformal invariance exist. A natural conjecture is that this continues to all amplitudes of the theory at any loop order.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.121603},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 12,
volume = 121,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Planar double box with dual coordinates and the crossed-box related to it by moving leg 3 to the central rung.

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