Three-loop five-leg amplitude in planar N=4 sYM near mass shell is computed via 6D unitarity cuts and dimensional reduction, confirming IR exponentiation governed by octagon anomalous dimension with each of three kinematic structures having its own function of 't Hooft coupling.
Planar Amplitudes in Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
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The collinear factorization properties of two-loop scattering amplitudes in dimensionally-regulated N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory suggest that, in the planar ('t Hooft) limit, higher-loop contributions can be expressed entirely in terms of one-loop amplitudes. We demonstrate this relation explicitly for the two-loop four-point amplitude and, based on the collinear limits, conjecture an analogous relation for n-point amplitudes. The simplicity of the relation is consistent with intuition based on the AdS/CFT correspondence that the form of the large N_c L-loop amplitudes should be simple enough to allow a resummation to all orders.
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Five legs @ three loops: N=4 sYM amplitude near mass-shell
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