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In this paper we present the first analytic computation of the six-point two-loop amplitude of ABJM theory. We show that the two-loop amplitude consists of corrections proportional to two distinct local Yangian invariants which can be identified as the tree- and the one-loop amplitude respectively. The two-loop correction proportional to the tree-amplitude is identical to the one-loop BDS result of \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) SYM plus an additional remainder function, while the correction proportional to the one-loop amplitude is finite. Both the remainder and the finite correction are dual conformal invariant, which implies that the two-loop dual conformal anomaly equation for ABJM is again identical to that of one-loop \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) super Yang-Mills, as was first observed at four-point. We discuss the theory on the Higgs branch, showing that its amplitudes are infrared finite, but equal, in the small mass limit, to those obtained in dimensional regularization.
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Caron-Huot, S., Huang, Yt. The two-loop six-point amplitude in ABJM theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 75 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2013)075
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