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Contribution of scalars to N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills amplitudes

Alfredo Bonini, Davide Fioravanti, Simone Piscaglia, and Marco Rossi
Phys. Rev. D 95, 041902(R) – Published 21 February 2017

Abstract

We analyze the contribution of 2n scalars to the operator product expansion series for Maximum Helicity Violating (MHV) gluon scattering amplitudes/polygonal Wilson loops in planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM). Hence, we sum up on 2n for large coupling λ: the logarithm of the amplitude is proportional to λ, thus competing, unexpectedly, with the famous classical contribution. We also give explicit expressions for the first terms at large λ. For this analysis, we find an explicit computation of the 2n-scalar term at any coupling by means of Young tableaux, similar to Nekrasov-Okounkov expressions in N=2 SYM.

  • Received 18 November 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.041902

© 2017 American Physical Society

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Particles & Fields

Authors & Affiliations

Alfredo Bonini1,*, Davide Fioravanti1,†, Simone Piscaglia2,‡, and Marco Rossi3,§

  • 1Sezione INFN di Bologna and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy
  • 2Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
  • 3Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università della Calabria and INFN, Gruppo collegato di Cosenza, Arcavacata di Rende, 87036 Cosenza, Italy

  • *bonini@bo.infn.it; Also at Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA, Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
  • fioravanti@bo.infn.it
  • piscaglia@th.phys.titech.ac.jp
  • §rossi@cs.infn.it

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Vol. 95, Iss. 4 — 15 February 2017

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