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Six-point AdS gluon amplitudes from flat space and factorization

Luis F. Alday1, Vasco Gonçalves2, Maria Nocchi1, and Xinan Zhou3,*

  • 1Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom
  • 2Centro de Física do Porto e Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
  • 3Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  • *Corresponding author: xinan.zhou@ucas.ac.cn
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Phys. Rev. Research 6, L012041 – Published 26 February, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L012041

Abstract

We present a powerful new approach to compute tree-level higher-point holographic correlators. Our method only exploits the flat-space limit, where we point out an important simplification, and factorization of amplitudes in AdS. In particular, it makes minimal use of supersymmetry, crucial in all previous bootstrap methods. We demonstrate our method by computing the six-point super gluon amplitude of super Yang-Mills in AdS5.

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Phys. Rev. Research 6, L012041– Published 26 February, 2024
  • Received 29 August 2023
  • Revised 31 October 2023
  • Accepted 31 January 2024
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