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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/

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
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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)