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arxiv: 1611.05436 · v1 · submitted 2016-11-16 · ✦ hep-th

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Tessellating cushions: four-point functions in N=4 SYM

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keywords four-pointfunctionsplanarspacetree-levelconfigurationhalf-bpsoperators
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We consider a class of planar tree-level four-point functions in N=4 SYM in a special kinematic regime: one BMN operator with two scalar excitations and three half-BPS operators are put onto a line in configuration space; additionally, for the half-BPS operators a co-moving frame is chosen in flavour space. In configuration space, the four-punctured sphere is naturally triangulated by tree-level planar diagrams. We demonstrate on a number of examples that each tile can be associated with a modified hexagon form-factor in such a way as to efficiently reproduce the tree-level four-point function. Our tessellation is not of the OPE type, fostering the hope of finding an independent, integrability-based approach to the computation of planar four-point functions.

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