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Folding Amplitudes into Form Factors: An Antipodal Duality

Lance J. Dixon, Ömer Gürdoğan, Andrew J. McLeod, and Matthias Wilhelm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111602 – Published 15 March 2022
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Abstract

We observe that the three-gluon form factor of the chiral part of the stress-tensor multiplet in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory is dual to the six-gluon MHV amplitude on its parity-preserving surface. Up to a simple variable substitution, the map between these two quantities is given by the antipode operation defined on polylogarithms (as part of their Hopf algebra structure), which acts at symbol level by reversing the order of letters in each term. We provide evidence for this duality through seven loops.

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  • Received 17 December 2021
  • Accepted 11 February 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.111602

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Particles & Fields

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Lance J. Dixon1, Ömer Gürdoğan2, Andrew J. McLeod3,4,5, and Matthias Wilhelm5

  • 1SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309, USA
  • 2School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
  • 3CERN, Theoretical Physics Department, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
  • 4Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
  • 5Niels Bohr International Academy, Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

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Vol. 128, Iss. 11 — 18 March 2022

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