The connected prescription for form factors in twistor space

被引:25
作者
Brandhuber, A. [1 ]
Hughes, E. [1 ]
Panerai, R. [1 ]
Spence, B. [1 ]
Travaglini, G. [1 ]
机构
[1] Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Phys & Astron, Ctr Res String Theory, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
Scattering Amplitudes; Supersymmetric gauge theory; YANG-MILLS THEORY; RECURSION RELATION; GAUGE-THEORY;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP11(2016)143
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We propose a connected prescription formula in twistor space for all tree-level form factors of the stress tensor multiplet operator in N = 4 super Yang-Mills, which is a generalisation of the expression of Roiban, Spradlin and Volovich for superamplitudes. By introducing link variables, we show that our formula is identical to the recently proposed four-dimensional scattering equations for form factors. Similarly to the case of amplitudes, the link representation of form factors is shown to be directly related to BCFW recursion relations, and is considerably more tractable than the scattering equations. We also discuss how our results are related to a recent Grassmannian formulation of form factors, and comment on a possible derivation of our formula from ambitwistor strings.
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