Five-point amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity

John Joseph M. Carrasco and Henrik Johansson
Phys. Rev. D 85, 025006 – Published 13 January 2012

Abstract

We present the complete integrands of five-point superamplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity, at one and two loops, for four-dimensional external states and D-dimensional internal kinematics. For N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory we give the amplitudes for general gauge group—including all nonplanar contributions. The results are constructed using integral diagrams that manifestly satisfy the conjectured duality between color and kinematics, providing additional nontrivial evidence in favor of the duality for multipoint and multiloop amplitudes. We determine the ultraviolet poles by integrating the amplitudes in the dimensions where logarithmic divergences first occur. We introduce new kinematic prefactors which offer a convenient decomposition of the external state structure of the nonplanar five-point amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric theories to all loop orders.

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  • Received 4 July 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.025006

© 2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

John Joseph M. Carrasco1,* and Henrik Johansson2,†

  • 1Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4060, USA
  • 2Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay, F–91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France

  • *jjmc@stanford.edu
  • henrik.johansson@cea.fr

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Vol. 85, Iss. 2 — 15 January 2012

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