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We describe a new approach to computing the chiral part of correlation functions of stress-tensor supermultiplets in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) SYM that relies on symmetries, analytic properties and the structure of the OPE only. We demonstrate that the correlation functions are given by a linear combination of chiral \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) superconformal invariants accompanied by coefficient functions depending on the space-time coordinates only. We present the explicit construction of these invariants and show that the six-point correlation function is fixed in the Born approximation up to four constant coefficients by its symmetries. In addition, the known asymptotic structure of the correlation function in the light-like limit fixes unambiguously these coefficients up to an overall normalization. We demonstrate that the same approach can be applied to obtain a representation for the six-point NMHV amplitude that is free from any auxiliary gauge fixing parameters, does not involve spurious poles and manifests half of the dual superconformal symmetry.
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Chicherin, D., Doobary, R., Eden, B. et al. Bootstrapping correlation functions in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) SYM. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 31 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2016)031
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