Integrability, Scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops in N=4 Super Yang Mills theory (note special day)

by Juan Maldacena (IAS Princeton)

Friday 2 Jul 2010, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

We consider Wilson loops and scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang Mills. We describe strong coupling results for the amplitudes, which are derived using integrability. We also obtain exact results for all values of the coupling, in a corner of parameter space. Namely, we show that the collinear limit can be viewed as a special type of operator product expansion. This allows us to make all order predictions for the collinear expansion of Wilson loops.