Origin of the Six-Gluon Amplitude in Planar Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
Abstract
We study the maximally-helicity-violating six-gluon scattering amplitude in planar super-Yang-Mills theory at finite coupling when all three cross ratios are small. It exhibits a double logarithmic scaling in the cross ratios, controlled by a handful of “anomalous dimensions” that are functions of the coupling constant alone. Inspired by known seven-loop results at weak coupling and the integrability-based pentagon operator product expansion, we present conjectures for the all-order resummation of these anomalous dimensions. At strong coupling, our predictions agree perfectly with the string theory analysis. Intriguingly, the simplest of these anomalous dimensions coincides with one describing the lightlike limit of the octagon, namely, the four-point function of large-charge Bogomol’nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield (BPS) operators.
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); French National Agency for Research
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1615708
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- OSTI ID: 1616294
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- SLAC-PUB-17501
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; 161603
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- AC02-76SF00515; ANR-17-CE31-0001-02
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- Physical Review Letters
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- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 124 Journal Issue: 16; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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- American Physical Society
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; field & string theory models & techniques; quantum field theory; scattering amplitudes
Citation Formats
Basso, Benjamin, Dixon, Lance J., and Papathanasiou, Georgios. Origin of the Six-Gluon Amplitude in Planar N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.161603.
Basso, Benjamin, Dixon, Lance J., & Papathanasiou, Georgios. Origin of the Six-Gluon Amplitude in Planar N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.161603
Basso, Benjamin, Dixon, Lance J., and Papathanasiou, Georgios. Wed .
"Origin of the Six-Gluon Amplitude in Planar N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.161603.
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title = {Origin of the Six-Gluon Amplitude in Planar N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory},
author = {Basso, Benjamin and Dixon, Lance J. and Papathanasiou, Georgios},
abstractNote = {We study the maximally-helicity-violating six-gluon scattering amplitude in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory at finite coupling when all three cross ratios are small. It exhibits a double logarithmic scaling in the cross ratios, controlled by a handful of “anomalous dimensions” that are functions of the coupling constant alone. Inspired by known seven-loop results at weak coupling and the integrability-based pentagon operator product expansion, we present conjectures for the all-order resummation of these anomalous dimensions. At strong coupling, our predictions agree perfectly with the string theory analysis. Intriguingly, the simplest of these anomalous dimensions coincides with one describing the lightlike limit of the octagon, namely, the four-point function of large-charge Bogomol’nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield (BPS) operators.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.161603},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 16,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.161603
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