A KLT-like construction for multi-Regge amplitudes

Abstract

Inspired by the calculational steps originally performed by Kawai, Lewellen and Tye, we decompose scattering amplitudes with single-valued coefficients obtained in the multi-Regge-limit of N=4 super-Yang–Mills theory into products of scattering amplitudes with multi-valued coefficients. We consider the simplest non-trivial situation: the six-point remainder function complementing the Bern–Dixon–Smirnov ansatz for multi-loop amplitudes.Utilizing inverse Mellin transformations, all single-valued amplitude components can indeed be decomposed into multi-valued amplitude components. Although the final expression is very similar in structure to the Kawai–Lewellen–Tye construction, moving away from the highly symmetric string scenario comes with several imponderabilities, some of which become more pronounced when considering more than six external legs in the remainder function.