Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-12-29
Phys.Rev.D75:105011,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
23 pages, revtex; v2,v3: minor typos fixed and references added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.105011
We introduce a method for extracting the cusp anomalous dimension at L loops from four-gluon amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills without evaluating any integrals that depend on the kinematical invariants. We show that the anomalous dimension only receives contributions from the obstructions introduced in hep-th/0601031. We illustrate this method by extracting the two- and three-loop anomalous dimensions analytically and the four-loop one numerically. The four-loop result was recently guessed to be f^4 = - (4\zeta^3_2+24\zeta_2\zeta_4+50\zeta_6- 4(1+r)\zeta_3^2) with r=-2 using integrability and string theory arguments in hep-th/0610251. Simultaneously, f^4 was computed numerically in hep-th/0610248 from the four-loop amplitude obtaining, with best precision at the symmetric point s=t, r=-2.028(36). Our computation is manifestly s/t independent and improves the precision to r=-2.00002(3), providing strong evidence in favor of the conjecture. The improvement is possible due to a large reduction in the number of contributing terms, as well as a reduction in the number of integration variables in each term.
Cachazo Freddy
Spradlin Marcus
Volovich Anastasia
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