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Spacetime and Flux Tube S-Matrices at Finite Coupling for N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 111, Issue 9, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.091602

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  1. Government of Canada through NSERC
  2. Province of Ontario through MRI
  3. Province of Ontario through ERA Grant [ER 06-02-293]
  4. U.S. Department of Energy Grant [DE-FG02-90ER40542]

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We propose a nonperturbative formulation of planar scattering amplitudes in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, or, equivalently, polygonal Wilson loops. The construction is based on the operator product expansion approach and introduces a new decomposition of the Wilson loop in terms of fundamental building blocks named pentagon transitions. These transitions satisfy a simple relation to the worldsheet S matrix on top of the so-called Gubser-Klebanov-Polyakov vacuum which allows us to bootstrap them at any value of the coupling. In this Letter we present a subsector of the full solution which we call the gluonic part. We match our results with both weak and strong coupling data available in the literature.

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