TY - JOUR
T1 - Local integrand representations of all two-loop amplitudes in planar SYM
AU - Bourjaily, Jacob L.
AU - Trnka, Jaroslav
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, The Author(s).
PY - 2015/8/31
Y1 - 2015/8/31
N2 - Abstract: We use generalized unitarity at the integrand-level to directly construct local, manifestly dual-conformally invariant formulae for all two-loop scattering amplitudes in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM). This representation separates contributions into manifestly finite and manifestly divergent terms — in a way that renders all infrared-safe observables (including ratio functions) calculable without any need for regulation. These results perfectly match the all-loop BCFW recursion relations, to which we provide a closed-form solution valid through two-loop-order. Finally, we describe and document a Mathematica package which implements these results, available as part of this work’s source files on the arXiv.
AB - Abstract: We use generalized unitarity at the integrand-level to directly construct local, manifestly dual-conformally invariant formulae for all two-loop scattering amplitudes in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM). This representation separates contributions into manifestly finite and manifestly divergent terms — in a way that renders all infrared-safe observables (including ratio functions) calculable without any need for regulation. These results perfectly match the all-loop BCFW recursion relations, to which we provide a closed-form solution valid through two-loop-order. Finally, we describe and document a Mathematica package which implements these results, available as part of this work’s source files on the arXiv.
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP08(2015)119
DO - 10.1007/JHEP08(2015)119
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940552427
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2015
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 8
M1 - 119
ER -