Applications of Subleading-Color Amplitudes in = 4 SYM Theory英文文献资料.docVIP

HindawiPublishingCorporation AdvancesinHighEnergyPhysics Volume2011,ArticleID190587,39pages doi:10.1155/2011/190587 ReviewArticle Applications ofSubleading-Color Amplitudes in N=4SYMTheory StephenG.Naculich, HoratiuNastase, 1 2 andHowardJ.Schnitzer 3 1Department ofPhysicsandAstronomy,BowdoinCollege,Brunswick, ME04011,USA 2InstitutodeF′?sicaTe′orica,Universidade EstadualPaulista(UNESP), R.Dr.BentoT.Ferraz271,Bl.II, 01140-070 SaoPaulo,SP,Brazil 3TheoreticalPhysicsGroup,MartinA.FisherSchoolofPhysics,BrandeisUniversity,Waltham, MA02454,USA Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoStephenG.Naculich, naculich@ Received14June2011;Accepted 9October2011 Academic Editor:Anastasios Petkou Copyright q2011StephenG.Naculichetal. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction inanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. Anumber offeatures andapplications ofsubleading-color amplitudes ofN  4SYM theory are reviewed. Particular attention isgiven totheIRdivergences ofthesubleading-color amplitudes, therelationships ofN4SYMtheorytoN8supergravity,andtogeometric interpretations of one-loopsubleading-color andNkMHVamplitudes ofN4SYMtheory. 1.Introduction Planar amplitudes of N  4 SYM theory have been extensively studied by a variety of methods,see,forexample,1–23.Forarecentoverview,see24andthespecialissueof JournalofPhysicsA,devotedto“Scatteringamplitudesingaugetheories.”Subleading-color i.e., nonplanar amplitudes, however, usually receive less attention 25–33 . Nevertheless interestinginsightsareavailablefromvariousapplicationsofsubleadingcoloramplitudes. Onecaseinpointisapossibleweak/weakdualitybetweenN  4SYMtheoryandN  8 supergravity 15, 34–46. Since nonplanar graphs appear on an equal footing with planar graphsinN8supergravity,oneneedstounderstandthenonplanargraphsinN4SYM iftheweak/weakdualityistobeexplored.