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We present the four-loop remainder function for six-gluon scattering with maximal helicity violation in planar \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, as an analytic function of three dual-conformal cross ratios. The function is constructed entirely from its analytic properties, without ever inspecting any multi-loop integrand. We employ the same approach used at three loops, writing an ansatz in terms of hexagon functions, and fixing coefficients in the ansatz using the multi-Regge limit and the operator product expansion in the near-collinear limit. We express the result in terms of multiple polylogarithms, and in terms of the coproduct for the associated Hopf algebra. From the remainder function, we extract the BFKL eigenvalue at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy (NNLLA), and the impact factor at N3LLA. We plot the remainder function along various lines and on one surface, studying ratios of successive loop orders. As seen previously through three loops, these ratios are surprisingly constant over large regions in the space of cross ratios, and they are not far from the value expected at asymptotically large orders of perturbation theory.
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Dixon, L.J., Drummond, J.M., Duhr, C. et al. The four-loop remainder function and multi-Regge behavior at NNLLA in planar \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 116 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2014)116
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