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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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
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- 1471787
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- OSTI ID: 1498982
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- SC0009937
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- Published Article
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- Physical Review Letters
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- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 121 Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
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- 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.
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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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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.121603
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