The one-loop six-dimensional hexagon integral with three massive corners
Description
We compute the six-dimensional hexagon integral with three non-adjacent external masses analytically. After a simple rescaling, it is given by a function of six dual conformally invariant cross-ratios. The result can be expressed as a sum of 24 terms involving only one basic function, which is a simple linear combination of logarithms, dilogarithms, and trilogarithms of uniform degree three transcendentality. Our method uses differential equations to determine the symbol of the function, and an algorithm to reconstruct the latter from its symbol. It is known that six-dimensional hexagon integrals are closely related to scattering amplitudes in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory, and we therefore expect our result to be helpful for understanding the structure of scattering amplitudes in this theory, in particular at two loops.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-14458.pdf; http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-14458.html; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1028676/Additional details
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- vp.
- Report number
- SLAC-PUB--14458
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 43003000
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; HEXAGONAL CONFIGURATION; INTEGRALS; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLITUDES; CONFIGURATION; EQUATIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- AC02-76SF00515
- Notes
- Submitted to Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
- Funding organization
- US Department of Energy (United States)