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A Grassmannian étude in NMHV minors. (English) Zbl 1290.81075

Summary: Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo, Cheung and Kaplan [N. Arkani-Hamed et al., J. High Energy Phys. 2010, No. 3, Paper No. 110, 48 p. (2010; Zbl 1271.81169)] have proposed a Grassmannian formulation for the S-matrix of \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) Yang-Mills as an integral over link variables. In parallel work, the connected prescription for computing tree amplitudes in Witten’s twistor string theory has also been written in terms of link variables. In this paper we extend the six-and seven-point results of M. Spradlin and A. Volovich [“From twistor string theory to recursion relations”, Phys. Rev. D 80, 085022 (2009) arxiv:0909.0229] and L. Dolan and P. Goddard [“Gluon tree amplitudes in open twistor string theory”, ibid. 12, 032 (2009) arxiv:0909.0499] by providing a simple analytic proof of the equivalence between the two formulas for all tree-level NMHV superamplitudes. Also we note that a simple deformation of the connected prescription integrand gives directly the ACCK Grassmannian integrand in the limit when the deformation parameters equal zero.

MSC:

81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
81T60 Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics
81T30 String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory
81U20 \(S\)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory
14D21 Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)

Citations:

Zbl 1271.81169

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