The study of scattering amplitudes in quantum eld theories (QFTs) is equally important for high energy phenomenology and for theoretical understanding of fundamental physics. Over the last 15 years there has been an explosion of new techniques, inspired by Witten's celebrated twistor string theory [1]. The N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) provides a playground for applying and extending these methods, heavily constrained by spacetime, internal and hidden symmetries. Recently, Cachazo, He and Yuan proposed an algebraic construction of scattering amplitudes at tree level in various QFTs, based on the solution of certain scattering equations [2]. This formula was later extended to tree-level form factors of Tr(F2 SD) in four dimensional Yang-Mills theory [3]. In this thesis we show how this result may be naturally supersymmetrised, and derived from a dual connected formulation. Moreover, we relate our results to a geometric construction of form factors via the Grassmannian [4]. Finally, we argue that ambitwistor string theory provides a natural way to lift the result to arbitrary dimensions, paving the way for loop-level results. In complementary work, it was shown that the subleading soft behaviour of tree-level amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity is universal [5{7]. This unexpected property is related to extended symmetries of the theory acting at null in nity. Moreover, the hidden structure provides additional information relevant for resummation of physical observables. In this thesis, we extend the known results to one-loop level in N = 4 SYM, arguing that IR divergences introduce anomaly terms through nite order in the regulator. We constrain these terms using dual superconformal symmetry, and derive explicit formulae in the MHV and NMHV sectors. This thesis contains documentation for two Mathematica packages, illustrating the original calculations we have performed.

In this thesis we consider the N=1 super Yang-Mills theory on S5 with a single hypermultiplet in the adjoint representation. We argue that there is a critical value of the hypermultiplet mass M=3/2r, where r is the radius of S5, for which the free energy vanishes, and we study the model in the proximity of this value. For large N we provide analytical results for the free energy and the eigenvalue density in the weak and strong coupling limits, and in one case we solve the saddle point equation using a technique introduced by Hoppe. We present numerical results to show where each approximation is justified, and to explore the regimes where the model cannot be solved analytically. Based on the numerical results, we argue that in most cases the behaviour of the model is better understood in terms of an effective coupling constant λ'=λM. For small M the model simplifies to one whose kernel is non-singular. This simplified model shows a peculiar peak structure in the eigenvalue distribution, with the number of peaks growing as the effective coupling is increased. We interpret this as a series of phase transitions as M approaches 3/2r.

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Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2016-05-13T12:10:28Z (GMT) / Submitted by LUIS MAX GUILLEN QUIROZ null (luismax@ift.unesp.br) on 2016-09-22T03:10:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Pure-Spinor-Superfield-Formalism-MasterDissertation.pdf: 748046 bytes, checksum: dc1994a99330048c6f153d322a0863ee (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-09-27T14:13:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 quiroz_lmg_me_ift.pdf: 748046 bytes, checksum: dc1994a99330048c6f153d322a0863ee (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-27T14:13:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 quiroz_lmg_me_ift.pdf: 748046 bytes, checksum: dc1994a99330048c6f153d322a0863ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / E bem conhecido como descrever as teor´ıas de Super Yang-Mills (SYM) ´ em D = 10 dimens˜oes e Supergravidade (SG) em D = 11 dimens˜oes no superespa¸co e via seus campos componentes. No entanto, uma nova vers˜ao desses modelos foi formulada nos finais da d´ecada de 2000, quando Martin Cederwall usando o formalismo de supercampo de espinor puro conseguiu construir uma pure spinor a¸c˜ao, que a diferen¸ca das anteriores abordagens, esta n˜ao precisa de impor constraints a m˜ao, proporciona uma descri¸c˜ao completa de cada modelo (no sentido do formalismo BV) e as equa¸c˜oes do movimento obtidas a partir do respectivo principio de a¸c˜ao s˜ao supersim´etricas. Neste trabalho iremos explicar toda a base necess´aria para entender a constru¸c˜ao de tal formalismo. Para esse prop´osito, come¸caremos estudando a teoria SYM (abeliana) em D = 10 em suas formula¸c˜oes em componentes e no superespa¸co. Usaremos a a¸c˜ao da formula¸c˜ao on-shell para quantizar a teoria via o formalismo de Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV). Seguiremos para SG em D = 11 e estudaremos suas formula¸c˜oes em componentes e no superespa¸co. Ent˜ao iremos mostrar que podemos obter o mesmo espectro f´ısico de SYM em D = 10 (SG em D = 11) estudando a superpart´ıcula em D = 10 (D = 11) na calibre do cone de luz. De forma a ter uma quantiza¸c˜ao covariante desses modelos, introduziremos a superpart´ıcula de espinor puro em D = 10 (D = 11), a qual possui o operador BRST usual de espinor puro (Q = λD). Verificar-se-´a que a cohomologia desse operador coincidir´a com a teoria SYM em D=10 (SG em D=11) linearizada depois de ser quantizada via o formalismo BV. Esse resultado introduzir´a naturalmente a ideia de construir a¸c˜oes usando um supercampo de espinor puro. Finalmente, explicaremos como o formalismo de supercampo de espinor puro surge nesse contexto e como podemos us´a-lo para construir a¸c˜oes manifestamente supersim´etricas para SYM em D=10 e SG em D=11. / It is well known how to describe the D = 10 (SYM) Super Yang-Mills and D = 11 (SG) Supergravity theories on superspace and by component fields. However, a new version of these models was formulated in the late 2000, when Martin Cederwall using the pure spinor superfield formalism achieved to construct a pure spinor action for these theories, which unlike the previously mentioned approaches, this does not require to impose any constraint by hand, provides a full description of each model (in the BV sense) and the equations of motion coming from the corresponding action principle are supersymmetric. In this work we will explain all the background required to understand the construction of this action. For this purpose, we will start with the D=10 (abelian) SYM theory in its component and superspace formulations. We will use the action of the on-shell formulation to quantize the theory via the Batalin-Vilkovisky framework. We will move to D=11 supergravity and study its component and superspace formulations. Then we will show that we can obtain the same physical spectrum of D = 10 SYM (D = 11 SG) by studying the D = 10 (D = 11) superparticle in the light-cone gauge. In order to have a covariant quantization of these models, we will introduce the D = 10 (D = 11) pure spinor superparticle, which possesses the usual pure spinor BRST operator (Q = λD). It will turn out that the cohomology of this operator will coincide with the linearized D = 10 SYM (D = 11 SG) theory after being quantized via BV-formalism. This result will introduce naturally the idea of constructing pure spinor actions. Finally, we will explain how the pure spinor superfield framework arises in this context and how we can use it to construct manifestly supersymmetric actions for D = 10 SYM and D = 11 SG.

Im ersten Teil dieser Dissertation untersuchen wir Formfaktoren von allgemeinen eichinvarianten lokalen zusammengesetzten Operatoren in der N=4 Super-Yang-Mills-Theorie bei verschiedenen Schleifenordnungen und Anzahlen externer Felder. Wir zeigen, wie Masseschalen-Methoden zu ihrer Berechnung genutzt werden können, und extrahieren aus ihnen insbesondere den Dilatationsoperator. Wir untersuchen auch die Eigenschaften der zugehörigen Rückstandsfunktionen. Des Weiteren verallgemeinern wir Masseschalen-Diagramme, Graßmann-Integrale und die integrabilitätsinspirierte Technik der R-Operatoren zur Anwendung auf Formfaktoren, wobei wir uns auf das Beispiel des chiralen Teils des Energie-Impuls-Tensors konzentrieren. Im zweiten Teil untersuchen wir die Beta- und die Gamma-i-Deformation. Bei diesen handelt es sich um die allgemeinste supersymmetrische beziehungsweise nicht-supersymmetrische feldtheoretische Deformation von N=4 Super-Yang-Mills-Theorie, welche auf der Ebene des asymptotischen Bethe-Ansatzes integrabel sind. Hierbei tritt ein neuer Effekt der endlichen Systemgröße auf, der durch Doppelspurstrukturen in der deformierten Lagrange-Dichte hervorgerufen wird und den wir Vorwickeln nennen. Während die Beta-Deformation für sich an ihren nicht-verschwindenden IR-Fixpunkten befindliche Doppelspurkopplungen konform invariant ist, weist die Gamma-i-Deformation rennende Doppelspurkopplungen ohne Fixpunkte auf, was die konforme Invarianz selbst im planaren Limes bricht. Nichtsdestotrotz erlaubt die Gamma-i-Deformation hochgradig nicht-triviale Tests der Integrabilität bei beliebig hohen Schleifenordnungen. / In the first part of this thesis, we study form factors of general gauge-invariant local composite operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at various loop orders and for various numbers of external legs. We show how to use on-shell methods for their calculation and in particular extract the dilatation operator from the result. We also investigate the properties of the corresponding remainder functions. Moreover, we extend on-shell diagrams, a Graßmannian integral formulation and an integrability-based construction via R-operators to form factors, focussing on the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet as an example. In the second part, we study the beta- and the gamma-i-deformation, which were respectively shown to be the most general supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric field-theory deformations of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory that are integrable at the level of the asymptotic Bethe ansatz. For these theories, a new kind of finite-size effect occurs, which we call prewrapping and which emerges from double-trace structures that are required in the deformed Lagrangians. While the beta-deformation is conformal when the double-trace couplings are at their non-trivial IR fixed points, the gamma-i-deformation has running double-trace couplings without fixed points, which break conformal invariance even in the planar theory. Nevertheless, the gamma-i-deformation allows for highly non-trivial field-theoretic tests of integrability at arbitrarily high loop orders.

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Supersymmetrische Feldtheorien können durch eine nicht-lineare und nicht-lokale Transformation der bosonischen Felder charakterisiert werden, der Nicolai-Abbildung. Sie bildet das wechselwirkende Funktionalmaß so auf das Maß der zugehörigen freien Theorie ab, dass die Jacobi-Determinante gleich dem Produkt der fermionischen Determinanten ist. Wir untersuchen die Nicolai-Abbildungen des 2-dimenionalen Wess-Zumino Modells und der N=1 sowie N=4 super Yang-Mills Theorien. Wir geben einen konstruktiven Beweis für die Existenz der Nicolai-Abbildung in diesen Theorien. Der Beweis beinhaltet die Herleitung des infinitesimalen Generators der inversen Abbildung, dem R-Operator. Wir benutzen diesen Operator, um die Nicolai-Abbildung im 2-dimensionalen Wess-Zumino Modell bis zur fünften Ordnung in der Kopplung zu berechnen. In der N=1 super Yang-Mills Theorie führen wir die Begriffe der on- bzw. off-shell Nicolai-Abbildungen ein. Die on-shell Abbildung existiert in d=3,4,6 und 10 Dimensionen aber nur für die Landau Eichung. Wir bestimmen sie bis zur vierten Ordnung. Die off-shell Abbildung existiert nur in d=4 Dimensionen aber für allgemeine Eichungen. Wir berechnen sie in der axialen Eichung bis zur zweiten Ordnung. Für die N=4 super Yang-Mills Theorie geben wir den R-Operator an und zeigen, dass man die N=4 Nicolai-Abbildung durch dimensionale Reduktion aus der N=1 Abbildung erhält. Inverse Nicolai-Abbildungen bilden Quantenkorrelationsfunktionen bosonischer Observablen auf freie Korrelationsfunktionen ab. Daher gestatten sie eine Quantisierung supersymmetrischer Theorien ohne die Verwendung von Fermionen oder Geistern. Wir benutzten diese Eigenschaft, um den Vakuum-Erwartungswert der Maldacena-Wilson Geraden bis zur sechsten Ordnung zu berechnen. Im zweiten Teil dieser Arbeit bestimmen wir die explizite Form aller Felder im 1/2-BPS Energie-Impuls-Tensor Multiplet in N=4 super Yang-Mills. Dieses Multiplet enthält den R-Symmetrie Fluss und den Energie-Impuls-Tensor. / Supersymmetric field theories can be characterized by the existence of a non-linear and non-local transformation of the bosonic fields, the Nicolai map. It maps the interacting functional measure to that of a free theory such that the Jacobian determinant of the transformation equals the product of the fermionic determinants. In this thesis, we study the Nicolai maps of the 2-dimensional Wess-Zumino model, N=1 super Yang-Mills and N=4 super Yang-Mills. We give a constructive proof for the existence of the Nicolai map in these theories. The proof includes the derivation of the infinitesimal generator of the inverse Nicolai map, called the R-operator. We use this operator to compute the Nicolai map of the 2-dimensional Wess-Zumino model up to the fifth order in the coupling. In N=1 super Yang-Mills, we introduce the notion of on- and off-shell Nicolai maps. The on-shell Nicolai map of N=1 super Yang-Mills exists in d=3,4,6 and 10 dimensions but is constrained to the Landau gauge. We compute this map up to the fourth order. The off-shell Nicolai map exists only in d=4 dimensions but for general gauges. We compute it in the axial gauge up to the second order. In N=4 super Yang-Mills, we give the R-operator and show that the Nicolai map can be obtained from the Nicolai map of 10-dimensional N=1 super Yang-Mills by dimensional reduction. Inverse Nicolai maps map quantum correlation functions of bosonic observables to free correlation functions. Hence, Nicolai maps allow for a fermion (and ghost) free quantization of supersymmetric (gauge) theories. We apply this property to compute the vacuum expectation value of the infinite straight line Maldacena-Wilson loop in N=4 super Yang-Mills to the sixth order. Thus extending the previous perturbative result by one order. In the second part of this thesis, we derive the explicit field content of the 1/2-BPS stress tensor multiplet in N=4 super Yang-Mills, which contains the R-symmetry current and the energy-momentum tensor.

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Das Standardmodell der Teilchenphysik hat sich bis heute, mit Ausnahme der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, als erfolgreichste Theorie zur Beschreibung der Natur erwiesen. Störungstheoretische Rechnungen für bestimmte Mengen in Quantenchromodynamik (QCD) haben bisher unerreicht präzise Vorraussagen ermöglicht, die experimentell nachgewiesen wurden. Trotz dieser Erfolge gibt es Teile des Standardmodells und Energieskalen bei denen die Störungstheorie versagt und man nach Alternativen suchen muss. Vieles können wir hierbei verstehen, indem wir eine ähnliche Theorie untersuchen, die sogenannte planare N=4 Super Yang-Millstheorie in vier Dimensionen (N=4 SYM). Es existieren viele Indizien dafür, dass die Theorie exakte Lösungen zulässt. Dies lässt sich zurückführen auf die Integrabilität der Theorie, eine unendlich dimensionale Symmetriealgebra, die die Theorie stark einschränkt. Neben besagter Integrabilität besitzt diese Theorie auch andere spezielle Eigenschaften. So ist sie des am besten verstandenen Beispiels der Eich-/Gravitations Dualität durch die AdS/CFT Korrespondenz. Ausserdem sind die Streuamplituden von Gluonen auf Baumgraphenniveau in N=4 SYM die selben wie in Quantenchromodynamik. Diese Streuamplituden besitzen eine elegante Struktur und stellen sich als deutlich simpler heraus, als die dazugehörigen Feynmangraphen vermuten lassen. Tatsächlich umgehen viele der zur Berechnung von Streuamplituden entwickelten Masseschalenmethoden die Feynmangraphen, indem sie vorrübergehend manifeste Unitarität und Lokalität aufgeben und dadurch die Rechnungen stark vereinfachen. Alle diese Entwicklungen suggerieren, dass der konventionelle Formalismus der Theorie mit Hilfe der Wirkung im Minkowskiraum nicht der aufschlussreichste oder effizienteste Weg ist, die Theorie zu untersuchen. Diese Arbeit untersucht der Hypothese, ob dass stattdessen Twistorvariablen besser geeignet sind, die Theorie zu beschreiben. Der Twistorformalismus wurde zuerst von Roger Penrose eingeführt. Auf dem klassischen Level ist die holomorphe Chern-Simonstheorie im Twistorraum äquivalent zur klassischen selbst-dualen Yang-Mills Lösung in der Raumzeit. Die volle Twistorwirkung, welche eine Störung um diesen klassisch integrablen Sektor ist und durch eine Eichbedingung auf die N=4 SYM Wirkung reduziert werden kann, produziert unter einer anderen Eichbedingung alle sogenannten maximalhelizitätsverletzenden (MHV) Amplituden auf Baumgraphenniveau. Durch die Einführung eines Twistorpropagators konnten auch NkMHV Amplituden effizient beschrieben werden. In dieser Arbeit erweitern wir den Twistorformalismus um auch Größen, die sich nicht auf den Masseschalen befinden, beschreiben zu können. Wir untersuchen alle lokalen eichinvarianten zusammengesetzten Operatoren im Twistorraum und zeigen, dass sie alle Baumgraphenniveau-Formfaktoren des sogenannten MHV-Typs erzeugen. Wir erweitern diese Methode zu NMHV und öher NkMHW Level in Anlehnung an die Amplituden. Schliess lich knüpfen wir an die Integrabilität an, indem wir den ein-Schleifen Dilatationsoperator in dem skalaren Sektor der Theorie im Twistorraum berechnen. / The Standard Model of particle physics has proven to be, with the exception of general relativity, the most accurate description of nature to this day. Perturbative calculations for certain quantities in Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD) have led to the highest precision predictions that have been experimentally verified. However, for certain sectors and energy regimes, perturbation theory breaks down and one must look for alternative methods. Much can be learned from studying a close cousin of the standard model, called planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions (N = 4 SYM), for which a lot of evidence exists that it admits exact solutions. This exact solvability is due to its quantum integrability, a hidden infinite symmetry algebra that greatly constrains the theory, which has led to a lot of progress in solving the spectral problem. Integrability aside, this non-Abelian quantum field theory is special in yet other ways. For example, it is the most well understood example of a gauge/gravity duality via the AdS/CFT correspondence. Furthermore, at tree level the scattering amplitudes in its gluon sector coincide with those of Quantum Chromo Dynamics. These scattering amplitudes exhibit a very elegant structure and are much simpler than the corresponding Feynman diagram calculation would suggest. Indeed, many on-shell methods that have been developed for computing these scattering amplitudes circumvent the tedious Feynman calculation, by giving up manifest unitarity and locality at intermediate stages of the calculation, greatly simplifying the work. All these developments suggest that the conventional way in which the theory is presented, i.e. in terms of the well- known action on Minkowski space, might not be the most revealing or in any case not the most efficient way. This thesis investigates whether instead twistor variables provide a more suitable description. The twistor formalism was first introduced by Roger Penrose. At the classical level, a holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on twistor space is equivalent to classically integrable self-dual Yang-Mills solutions in space-time. A quantum perturbation around this classically integrable sector reduces to the conventional N = 4 SYM action by imposing a partial gauge condition. This action generates all so-called maximally helicity violating (MHV) amplitudes at tree level directly, when a different gauge was chosen. By including a twistor propagator into the formalism, also higher degree NkMHV amplitudes can be described efficiently. In this thesis we extend this twistor formalism to encompass (partially) off-shell quantities. We describe all gauge-invariant local composite operators in twistor space and show that they immediately generate all tree-level form factors of the MHV type. We use the formalism to compute form factors at NMHV and higher NkMHV level in parallel to how this was done for amplitudes. Finally, we move on to integrability by computing the one-loop dilatation operator in the scalar sector of the theory in twistor space.

Cette thèse est dédiée à l'étude de la fonction à trois points dans la théorie de jauge super-symétrique (SYM) N=4, dans la limite du grand nombre de couleurs, à l'aide de l'intégrabilité. La théorie de jauge N=4 SYM est invariante conforme au niveau quantique est on pense qu'elle est résoluble exactement. Par la correspondance AdS/CFT, elle est duale à la théorie des cordes de type IIB dans l'espace courbe AdS5× S5. Les fonctions à trois points sont des quantités qui contiennent de l'information essentielle sur la dynamique de la théorie.Nous passons en revue les méthodes déjà existantes et outils de l'intégrabilité qui sont nécessaires pour le calcul de la fonction à trois points. Nous présentons le calcul de la fonction à trois points dans le secteur SU(3), de rang supérieur à un, nous avons utilisé une représentation sous forme de déterminant, qui nous permets de prendre la limite semi-classique. En exploitant la relation entre des chaines de spin à langue portée et la chaine de Heisenberg inhomogène, nous avons développé une nouvelle pur calculer la fonction à trois points dans le secteur SU(2) à l'ordre d'une boucle qui nous permets d'obtenir le résultat dans une forme très compacte. Dans la limite de Frolov-Tseytlin ce résultat est en accord avec celui qu'on obtient au couplage fort.Nous avons exploré des nouvelles formulations de la fonction à trois points. En nous inspirant de la formulation de la théorie des champs des cordes dans la jauge du cone de lumière nous avons construit un vertex de spin, qui est la version de couplage faible du vertex des cordes, pour tous les secteurs à l'ordre des arbres. Cette approche peut être reliée au programme des facteurs de forme pour les théories de champs bi-dimensionnelles intégrables, dont nous rappelons ici les bases. Nous étudions la dépendance dans la taille du système pour une classe spéciale de fonction à trois points qui correspond aux facteurs de forme diagonaux. / This thesis is devoted to the study of three-point functions of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory in the planar limit by using integrability. N=4 SYM theory is conformal invariant at quantum level and is believed to be completely solvable. By the AdS/CFT correspondence, it is dual to the type IIB superstring theory on the curved background AdS5×S5. The three-point functions are important quantities which contain essential dynamic information of the theory.The necessary tools in integrability and the existing methods of computing three-point functions are reviewed. We compute the three-point functions in the higher rank SU(3) sector and obtain a determinant representation for one special configuration, which allows us to take the semi-classical limit. By exploring the relation between long-range interacting spin chain and inhomogeneous XXX spin chain, we develop a new approach to compute three-point functions in the SU(2) sector at one-loop and obtain a compact result. In the Frolov-Tseytlin limit, this result matches the result at strong coupling.We also explore new formulations of the three-point functions. In one formulation inspired by the light-cone string field theory, we constructed the spin vertex, which is the weak coupling counterpart of the string vertex for all sectors at tree level. Another formulation which is related to the form factor boostrap program in integrable field theory is reviewed. At weak coupling, we study the finite volume dependence of a special type of three-point functions which are related to the diagonal form factors.