Tuesday, June 11, 2013

1306.1833 (John Golden et al.)

The Differential of All Two-Loop MHV Amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills Theory    [PDF]

John Golden, Marcus Spradlin
We present an explicit analytic calculation of the differential of the planar n-particle, two-loop MHV scattering amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. The result is expressed only in terms of the polylogarithm functions Li_k(-x), for k=1,2,3, with arguments x belonging to the special class of dual conformal cross-ratios known as cluster X-coordinates. The surprising fact that these amplitudes may be expressed in this way provides a striking example of the manner in which the cluster structure on the kinematic configuration space underlies the structure of amplitudes in SYM theory.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1833

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