Published July 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

A numerical study of gluon scattering amplitudes in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling

  • 1. Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551 (Japan)

Description

We study gluon scattering amplitudes in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We solve numerically the discretized Euler-Lagrange equations on the square worldsheet for the minimal surface with light-like boundaries in AdS spacetime. We evaluate the area of the surface for the 4, 6 and 8-point amplitudes using worldsheet and radial cut-off regularizations. Their infrared singularities in the cut-off regularization are found to agree with the analytical results near the cusp less than 5% at 520 x 520 lattice points.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/088

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
07
Journal Issue
2008
Journal Page Range
p. 088
ISSN
1126-6708