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February 5, 2026Journal of High Energy Physics0 citationsOpen Access

BDS ansatz in ABJM via scaffolding triangulations

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YHYu-tin HuangCKChia-Kai KuoCZChi Zhang

Key Points

  • This research aims to investigate the infrared behavior of two-loop amplitudes in three-dimensional Chern-Simons matter theory.
  • Introduced the BDS integrand to analyze infrared divergence.
  • Utilized scaffolding triangulations for organizing local integrands.
  • Demonstrated cancellation of elliptic cuts graphically.
  • Established that triangulation structures are preserved in integrated functions.
  • Proved that the integrated BDS integrand matches the one-loop MHV amplitude for all k.

Abstract

A bstract In this work, we analyze the infrared divergence of two-loop amplitudes at arbitrary multiplicity in three-dimensional N=6 N = 6 Chern-Simons matter theory. We introduce the Bern-Dixon-Smirnov (BDS) integrand, which captures the full infrared structure while remaining free of unphysical cuts. We show that these local integrands, together with their kinematic prefactors, are naturally organized by the scaffolding triangulations of n = 2 k -gon, with distinct triangulations yielding different local representations. Remarkably, this triangulation structure also persists at the level of the integrated functions. This observation provides a graphical proof of both the cancellation of elliptic cuts and the triangulation independence of the integrated result. As a direct consequence, we obtain a simple proof that the integrated BDS integrand coincides with the one-loop maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) amplitude (the BDS ansatz) of N=4 N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory for all n = 2 k.

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Huang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6984358ff1d9ada3c1fb4716https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02(2026)022
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