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Hard-Soft-Collinear Factorization to All Orders

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We provide a precise statement of hard-soft-collinear factorization of scattering amplitudes and prove it to all orders in perturbation theory. Factorization is formulated as the equality at leading power of scattering amplitudes in QCD with other amplitudes in QCD computed from a product of operator matrix elements. The equivalence is regulator independent and gauge independent. As the formulation relates amplitudes to the same amplitudes with additional soft or collinear particles, it includes as special cases the factorization of soft currents and collinear splitting functions from generic matrix elements, both of which are shown to be process independent to all orders. We show that the overlapping soft-collinear region is naturally accounted for by vacuum matrix elements of kinked Wilson lines. Although the proof is self-contained, it combines techniques developed for the study of pinch surfaces, scattering amplitudes, and effective field theory.

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Walking Sudakov: From Cusp to Octagon

hep-th · 2026-05-15 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

In a novel scaling limit on the Coulomb branch of planar N=4 SYM, the Sudakov form factor and four-point amplitude exhibit double-logarithmic behavior governed by a walking anomalous dimension that interpolates between cusp and octagon anomalous dimensions, with proposed all-loop expressions relying

On Carrollian Loop Amplitudes for Gauge Theory and Gravity

hep-th · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0 · 2 refs

Loop-level Carrollian amplitudes in N=4 SYM and N=8 supergravity are differential operators on tree-level versions, with logarithmic eikonal behavior and IR-safe factorization via natural splitting.

Progress on the soft anomalous dimension in QCD

hep-ph · 2026-04-21 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A lightcone-expansion strategy using Wilson-line correlators and the Method of Regions yields the three-loop soft anomalous dimension for QCD amplitudes with one massive colored particle and arbitrary massless ones.

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  • Walking Sudakov: From Cusp to Octagon hep-th · 2026-05-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 12 · internal anchor

    In a novel scaling limit on the Coulomb branch of planar N=4 SYM, the Sudakov form factor and four-point amplitude exhibit double-logarithmic behavior governed by a walking anomalous dimension that interpolates between cusp and octagon anomalous dimensions, with proposed all-loop expressions relying

  • On Carrollian Loop Amplitudes for Gauge Theory and Gravity hep-th · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 72 · 2 links · internal anchor

    Loop-level Carrollian amplitudes in N=4 SYM and N=8 supergravity are differential operators on tree-level versions, with logarithmic eikonal behavior and IR-safe factorization via natural splitting.

  • Progress on the soft anomalous dimension in QCD hep-ph · 2026-04-21 · unverdicted · none · ref 36

    A lightcone-expansion strategy using Wilson-line correlators and the Method of Regions yields the three-loop soft anomalous dimension for QCD amplitudes with one massive colored particle and arbitrary massless ones.

  • Energy Correlators Resolving Proton Spin hep-ph · 2025-09-22 · unreviewed · ref 92 · internal anchor