Loops in twistor space

Oct, 2004
21 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 71 (2005) 106010
e-Print:
Report number:
  • UCLA-04-TEP-42,
  • SPHT-T04-125,
  • PUPT-2137,
  • NSF-KITP-04-112

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Abstract:
We elucidate the one-loop twistor-space structure corresponding to momentum-space MHV diagrams. We also discuss the infrared divergences, and argue that only a limited set of MHV diagrams contain them. We show how to introduce a twistor-space regulator corresponding to dimensional regularization for the infrared-divergent diagrams. We also evaluate explicitly the `holomorphic anomaly' pointed out by Cachazo, Svrcek, and Witten, and use the result to define modified differential operators which can be used to probe the twistor-space structure of one-loop amplitudes.
  • 11.25.-w
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • supersymmetry
  • Seiberg-Witten model
  • scattering amplitude: higher-order
  • analytic properties
  • infrared problem
  • operator: differential
  • twistor