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A Color Dual Form for Gauge-Theory Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-05-29 v1

Abstract

Recently a duality between color and kinematics has been proposed, exposing a new unexpected structure in gauge theory and gravity scattering amplitudes. Here we propose that the relation goes deeper, allowing us to reorganize amplitudes into a form reminiscent of the standard color decomposition in terms of traces over generators, but with the role of color and kinematics swapped. By imposing additional conditions similar to Kleiss-Kuijf relations between partial amplitudes, the relationship between the earlier form satisfying the duality and the current one is invertible. We comment on extensions to loop level.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0312,
  title  = {A Color Dual Form for Gauge-Theory Amplitudes},
  author = {Zvi Bern and Tristan Dennen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0312},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures