Hidden conformal symmetry of gluon amplitudes and Wilson loops

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Description:	Drummond, J (LAPTH Annecy) Wednesday 12 December 2007, 14:00-14:20 Integrability and the Gauge/String Correspondence

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2008-01-03 16:47

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Strong Fields, Integrability and Strings

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Isaac Newton Institute

Drummond, J

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eng (English)

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Drummond, J


Abstract:	I will summarise recent developments which indicate there is a hidden confomal symmetry of planar gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM. I will show that the momentum integrals appearing in the four-gluon scattering amplitude up to four loops are conformal when written in terms of dual coordinates. Then we will discuss a relation between gluon scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops orginally proposed by Alday and Maldacena at strong coupling. I will show evidence that this relation also holds at weak coupling and present a one-loop and two-loop confirmation of this result. We also analyse the conformal Ward identities satisfied by the Wilson loop and propose their all-order form. We show that the Bern-Dixon-Smirnov ansatz for the all-order form of the MHV amplitudes is the unique solution of the Ward identity for the Wilson loop (up to a function of conformal invariants which appear at six points and beyond) providing further evidence of a hidden conformal symmetry.

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I will summarise recent developments which indicate there is a hidden confomal symmetry of planar gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM. I will show that the momentum integrals appearing in the four-gluon scattering amplitude up to four loops are conformal when written in terms of dual coordinates. Then we will discuss a relation between gluon scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops orginally proposed by Alday and Maldacena at strong coupling. I will show evidence that this relation also holds at weak coupling and present a one-loop and two-loop confirmation of this result. We also analyse the conformal Ward identities satisfied by the Wilson loop and propose their all-order form. We show that the Bern-Dixon-Smirnov ansatz for the all-order form of the MHV amplitudes is the unique solution of the Ward identity for the Wilson loop (up to a function of conformal invariants which appear at six points and beyond) providing further evidence of a hidden conformal symmetry.

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