An on-shell construction using BCFW trees plus vacuum-pair phase-space integrals with inclusion-exclusion signs reproduces the known one- and two-loop all-plus four-gluon amplitudes.
Two-Loop Helicity Amplitudes for Gluon-Gluon Scattering in QCD and Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
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We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of two gluons into two gluons in QCD, which are relevant for next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to jet production at hadron colliders. We give the results in the `t Hooft-Veltman and four-dimensional helicity variants of dimensional regularization. Summing our expressions over helicities and colors, and converting to conventional dimensional regularization, gives results in complete agreement with those of Glover, Oleari and Tejeda-Yeomans. We also present the amplitudes for 2 to 2 scattering in pure N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.
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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.
A Möbius-inversion formula on the refinement poset reconstructs planar L-loop n-point integrands as sums over non-scaleless scalar graphs dressed by D-dimensional cuts, demonstrated for Yang-Mills theory.
The paper decomposes two-loop Yang-Mills gluon amplitudes into color structures via trace and structure-constant bases and organizes relations between the resulting partial amplitudes.
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Perturbative construction of amplitudes from on-shell trees with vacuum pairs: the all-plus four-gluon amplitude through order $\boldsymbol{g}^{\boldsymbol{6}}$
An on-shell construction using BCFW trees plus vacuum-pair phase-space integrals with inclusion-exclusion signs reproduces the known one- and two-loop all-plus four-gluon amplitudes.
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Five legs @ three loops: N=4 sYM amplitude near mass-shell
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.
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Planar loop integrands from cuts in $D$ dimensions
A Möbius-inversion formula on the refinement poset reconstructs planar L-loop n-point integrands as sums over non-scaleless scalar graphs dressed by D-dimensional cuts, demonstrated for Yang-Mills theory.
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Color Decompositions of the Two Loop Amplitudes of Yang-Mills theory
The paper decomposes two-loop Yang-Mills gluon amplitudes into color structures via trace and structure-constant bases and organizes relations between the resulting partial amplitudes.