All-gluon amplitudes with off-shell recursion in multiplet bases
Abstract
The efficient computation of color-summed QCD amplitudes at high parton multiplicities remains a central challenge for precision collider predictions. Existing approaches using trace, color-flow, or adjoint bases suffer from non-orthogonality, which complicates the color algebra and scales poorly with multiplicity. In this work, we present an off-shell recursive framework for computing all-gluon tree-level amplitudes directly in orthogonal multiplet bases. Utilizing Wigner coefficients, we construct an algorithm that builds multiplet-projected off-shell currents from lower-point currents. By optimizing the recursion through partial summation and caching, we find that the computational complexity of calculating -gluon color-summed squared amplitudes scales as . This demonstrates the potential competitiveness of multiplet bases for high-multiplicity processes.
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@article{arxiv.2507.22636,
title = {All-gluon amplitudes with off-shell recursion in multiplet bases},
author = {Oskar Bolinder and Rikkert Frederix and Malin Sjodahl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.22636},
year = {2025}
}
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15 pages, 1 figure