An Origin Story for Amplitudes
arXiv:2211.12555 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.111602
Abstract
We classify origin limits of maximally helicity violating multi-gluon scattering amplitudes in planar super-Yang-Mills theory, where a large number of cross ratios approach zero, with the help of cluster algebras. By analyzing existing perturbative data, and bootstrapping new data, we provide evidence that the amplitudes become the exponential of a quadratic polynomial in the large logarithms. With additional input from the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz at strong coupling, we conjecture exact expressions for amplitudes with up to 8 gluons in all origin limits. Our expressions are governed by the tilted cusp anomalous dimension evaluated at various values of the tilt angle.
12 pages, 3 figures; v2, journal version
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