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Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in Twistor Space

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Mathew Richard Bullimore

    1. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Oxford, UK
  • A coherent presentation of new developments in the twistor theory approach to scattering amplitudes, not available elsewhere in the literature
  • Includes a clear introduction to the necessary mathematical background with references for further reading
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Mathew Richard Bullimore
    Pages 1-6

  3. Review

    • Mathew Richard Bullimore
    Pages 7-24

  4. Amplitudes and MHV Diagrams

    • Mathew Richard Bullimore
    Pages 25-46

  5. On-Shell Recursion

    • Mathew Richard Bullimore
    Pages 47-69

  6. Wilson Loops

    • Mathew Richard Bullimore
    Pages 71-94

  7. Anomalies

    • Mathew Richard Bullimore
    Pages 95-118
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Scattering amplitudes are fundamental and rich observables in quantum field theory. Based on the observation that, for massless particles of spin-one or more, scattering amplitudes are much simpler than expected from traditional Feynman diagram techniques, the broad aim of this work is to understand and exploit this hidden structure. It uses methods from twistor theory to provide new insights into the correspondence between scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and null polygonal Wilson loops. By additionally exploiting the symmetries of the problem, the author succeeds in developing new ways of computing scattering amplitudes.

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  • Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Mathew Richard Bullimore

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