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Wilson Loop Form Factors: A New Duality

We find a new duality for form factors of lightlike Wilson loops in planar $ \mathcal{N} $ = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory. The duality maps a form factor involving an n-sided lightlike polygonal super-Wilson loop together with m external on-shell states, to the same type of object but with the edges of...

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Autores principales: Chicherin, Dmitry, Heslop, Paul, Korchemsky, Gregory P., Sokatchev, Emery
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2018)029
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2260342
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author Chicherin, Dmitry
Heslop, Paul
Korchemsky, Gregory P.
Sokatchev, Emery
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Heslop, Paul
Korchemsky, Gregory P.
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description We find a new duality for form factors of lightlike Wilson loops in planar $ \mathcal{N} $ = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory. The duality maps a form factor involving an n-sided lightlike polygonal super-Wilson loop together with m external on-shell states, to the same type of object but with the edges of the Wilson loop and the external states swapping roles. This relation can essentially be seen graphically in Lorentz harmonic chiral (LHC) superspace where it is equivalent to planar graph duality. However there are some crucial subtleties with the cancellation of spurious poles due to gauge fixing. They are resolved by finding the correct formulation of the Wilson loop and by careful analytic continuation from Minkowski to Euclidean space. We illustrate all of these subtleties explicitly in the simplest non-trivial NMHV-like case.
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spelling cern-22603422023-10-04T07:58:39Zdoi:10.1007/JHEP04(2018)029http://cds.cern.ch/record/2260342engChicherin, DmitryHeslop, PaulKorchemsky, Gregory P.Sokatchev, EmeryWilson Loop Form Factors: A New Dualityhep-thParticle Physics - TheoryWe find a new duality for form factors of lightlike Wilson loops in planar $ \mathcal{N} $ = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory. The duality maps a form factor involving an n-sided lightlike polygonal super-Wilson loop together with m external on-shell states, to the same type of object but with the edges of the Wilson loop and the external states swapping roles. This relation can essentially be seen graphically in Lorentz harmonic chiral (LHC) superspace where it is equivalent to planar graph duality. However there are some crucial subtleties with the cancellation of spurious poles due to gauge fixing. They are resolved by finding the correct formulation of the Wilson loop and by careful analytic continuation from Minkowski to Euclidean space. We illustrate all of these subtleties explicitly in the simplest non-trivial NMHV-like case.We find a new duality for form factors of lightlike Wilson loops in planar $\mathcal N=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. The duality maps a form factor involving an $n$-sided lightlike polygonal super-Wilson loop together with $m$ external on-shell states, to the same type of object but with the edges of the Wilson loop and the external states swapping roles. This relation can essentially be seen graphically in Lorentz harmonic chiral (LHC) superspace where it is equivalent to planar graph duality. However there are some crucial subtleties with the cancellation of spurious poles due to the gauge fixing. They are resolved by finding the correct formulation of the Wilson loop and by careful analytic continuation from Minkowski to Euclidean space. We illustrate all of these subtleties explicitly in the simplest non-trivial NMHV-like case.arXiv:1612.05197CERN-TH-2016-253oai:cds.cern.ch:22603422016-12-15
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Particle Physics - Theory
Chicherin, Dmitry
Heslop, Paul
Korchemsky, Gregory P.
Sokatchev, Emery
Wilson Loop Form Factors: A New Duality
title Wilson Loop Form Factors: A New Duality
title_full Wilson Loop Form Factors: A New Duality
title_fullStr Wilson Loop Form Factors: A New Duality
title_full_unstemmed Wilson Loop Form Factors: A New Duality
title_short Wilson Loop Form Factors: A New Duality
title_sort wilson loop form factors: a new duality
topic hep-th
Particle Physics - Theory
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2018)029
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2260342
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