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We revisit the calculation of the six-gluon remainder function in planar \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) super Yang-Mills theory from the strong coupling TBA in the multi-Regge limit and identify an infinite set of kinematically subleading terms. These new terms can be compared to the strong coupling limit of the finite-coupling expressions for the impact factor and the BFKL eigenvalue proposed by Basso et al. in [1], which were obtained from an analytic continuation of the Wilson loop OPE. After comparing the results order by order in those subleading terms, we show that it is possible to precisely map both formalisms onto each other. A similar calculation can be carried out for the seven-gluon amplitude, the result of which shows that the central emission vertex does not become trivial at strong coupling.
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Sprenger, M. Regge meets collinear in strongly-coupled \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) super Yang-Mills. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 35 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2017)035
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