Two-loop iteration of five-point N=4 super-Yang-Mills amplitudes

Z. Bern, M. Czakon, D. A. Kosower, R. Roiban, V. A. Smirnov

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Abstract

We confirm by explicit computation the conjectured all-orders iteration of planar maximally supersymmetric N=4 Yang-Mills theory in the nontrivial case of five-point two-loop amplitudes. We compute the required unitarity cuts of the integrand and evaluate the resulting integrals numerically using a Mellin-Barnes representation and the automated package of Czakon [Comput. Phys. Commun. 175, 559 (2006)CPHCBZ0010-465510.1016/j.cpc.2006.07.002]. This confirmation of the iteration relation provides further evidence suggesting that N=4 gauge theory is solvable.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number181601
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume97
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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