Comment on the Alday-Maldacena solution in calculating scattering amplitude via AdS/CFT
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Following the recent proposal of Alday and Maldacena to obtain the strong coupling scattering amplitude in N=4 SYM via AdS/CFT, we point out that a unique solution can be obtained by imposing all the Virasoro constraints. In the case of four-gluon scattering, this solution is identical to the Alday-Maldacena solution, which is in accordance with the ansatz of Bern, Dixon and Smirnov. This also solves the moduli space problem of the four-point solution in a recent paper of Mironov, Morozov and Tomaras.
8 pages, no figures; v2: refined analysis on a general choice of k-vectors, see eq.(19); v3: presentation is improved, a mistake (eq.(31) in v2) is corrected, to be published in JHEP
8 pages, no figures; v2: refined analysis on a general choice of k-vectors, see eq.(19); v3: presentation is improved, a mistake (eq.(31) in v2) is corrected, to be published in JHEP