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SLAC Publication: SLAC-PUB-16008
SLAC Release Date: July 17, 2014
Bootstrapping six-gluon scattering in planar Neq4 super-Yang-Mills theory
Dixon, L. J.
We describe the hexagon function bootstrap for solving for six-gluon scattering amplitudes in the large N_c limit of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory. In this method, an ansatz for the finite part of these amplitudes is constrained at the level of amplitudes, not integrands, using boundary information. In the near-collinear limit, the dual picture of the amplitudes as Wilson loops leads to an operator product expansion which has been solved using integrability by Basso, Sever and Vieira. Factorizat... Show Full Abstract
We describe the hexagon function bootstrap for solving for six-gluon scattering amplitudes in the large N_c limit of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory. In this method, an ansatz for the finite part of these amplitudes is constrained at the level of amplitudes, not integrands, using boundary information. In the near-collinear limit, the dual picture of the amplitudes as Wilson loops leads to an operator product expansion which has been solved using integrability by Basso, Sever and Vieira. Factorization of the amplitudes in the multi-Regge limit provides additional boundary data. This bootstrap has been applied successfully through four loops for the maximally helicity violating (MHV) configuration of gluon helicities, and through three loops for the non-MHV case. Show Partial Abstract
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