Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-04-29
JHEP 0909:021,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
23 pages, 1 figure, typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/021
The present study illuminates the relation between null cusped Wilson loops and their corresponding amplitudes. We find that, compared to the case with no self-crossing, the one loop expectation value of a self-intersecting Wilson loop develops an additional 1/\epsilon singularity associated to the intersection. Interestingly, the same 1/\epsilon pole exists in the finite part of the one loop amplitude, appearing in the BDS conjecture, at the corresponding kinematic limit. At two loops, we explore the behaviour of the remainder function R, encoding the deviation of the amplitude from the BDS conjecture. By analysing the renormalisation group equations for the Wilson loop with a simple self-crossing, we argue that, when approaching the configuration with a self-crossing (u_2 \to 1, u_1\approx u_3), R diverges in the imaginary direction like R ~ i \pi \log^3(1-u_2). This behaviour can be attributed to the non-trivial analytic continuation needed when passing from the Euclidean to the physical region and suggests that R has a branch cut in the negative u_2 axis when the two other cross ratios are approximately equal (u_1 \approx u_3).
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