Leading singularities of the two-loop six-particle maximally helicity violating amplitude

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作者
Cachazo, Freddy [1 ]
Spradlin, Marcus [2 ]
Volovich, Anastasia [2 ]
机构
[1] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, Waterloo, ON N2J 2W9, Canada
[2] Brown Univ, Providence, RI 02912 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2008年 / 78卷 / 10期
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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10.1103/PhysRevD.78.105022
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We use the leading singularity technique to determine the planar six-particle two-loop maximally helicity violating amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in terms of a simple basis of integrals. Our result for the parity-even part of the amplitude agrees with the one recently presented in 1. The parity-odd part of the amplitude is a new result. The leading singularity technique reduces the determination of the amplitude to finding the solution to a system of linear equations. The system of equations is easily found by computing residues. We present the complete system of equations, which determines the whole amplitude, and solve the two-by-two blocks analytically. Larger blocks are solved numerically in order to test the Anastasiou Bern Dixon Kosower/Bern Dixon Smirnov iterative structure.
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