Artigo
All-loop infrared-divergent behavior of most-subleading-color gauge-theory amplitudes
Registro en:
Journal Of High Energy Physics. New York: Springer, n. 4, 23 p., 2013.
1029-8479
10.1007/JHEP04(2013)114
WOS:000321208800029
Autor
Naculich, Stephen G.
Nastase, Horatiu [UNESP]
Schnitzer, Howard J.
Resumen
The infrared singularities of gravitational amplitudes are one-loop exact, in that higher-loop divergences are characterized by the exponential of the one-loop divergence. We show that the contributions to SU(N) gauge-theory amplitudes that are most-subleading in the 1/N expansion are also one-loop exact, provided that the dipole conjecture holds. Possible corrections to the dipole conjecture, beginning at three loops, could violate one-loop-exactness, though would still maintain the absence of collinear divergences. We also demonstrate a relation between L-loop four-point N = 8 supergravity and most-subleading-color N = 4 SYM amplitudes that holds for the two leading IR divergences, O(1/epsilon(L)) and O(1/epsilon(L-1)), but breaks down at O(1/epsilon(L-2)). NSF Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) DOE Bowdoin Coll, Dept Phys, Brunswick, ME 04011 USA UNESP Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, BR-01140070 Sao Paulo, Brazil Brandeis Univ, Martin Fisher Sch Phys, Theoret Phys Grp, Waltham, MA 02454 USA UNESP Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, BR-01140070 Sao Paulo, Brazil NSFPHY10-67961 CNPq: 301219/2010-9 DOEDE-FG02-92ER40706