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All-loop planar integrands in Yang-Mills theory from recursion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-21 v1

Abstract

In this letter, we generalize the recursion methods based on cut equations arXiv:2412.21027, originally developed for scalar theories, to gluons in pure Yang-Mills theory. In gauge theories, planar loop integrands are subtle to defined and obtained due to the existence of scaleless integrals. A critical challenge arises when constructing higher-loop integrands via recursion methods: integrands with or without all scaleless terms both are incompatible with the reconstruction formalism in arXiv:2412.21027. To address this, we introduce a refined\textit{refined} integrand by systematically removing specific scaleless contributions, and develop an algorithmic implementation of the recursion to all-loop level. We explicitly demonstrate the framework by three steps and obtain the recursion formula in pure Yang-Mills theory. In the ancillary files, we provide the results up to the two-loop five-point integrand and the simplified result in the large-DD limit for the three-loop four-point case.

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@article{arxiv.2503.15860,
  title  = {All-loop planar integrands in Yang-Mills theory from recursion},
  author = {Qu Cao and Fan Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.15860},
  year   = {2025}
}

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5 pages, 7 figures

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