English

Berends-Giele recursion for double-color-ordered amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-24 v2

Abstract

Tree-level double-color-ordered amplitudes are computed using Berends--Giele recursion relations applied to the bi-adjoint cubic scalar theory. The standard notion of Berends--Giele currents is generalized to double-currents and their recursions are derived from a perturbiner expansion of linearized fields that solve the non-linear field equations. Two applications are given. Firstly, we prove that the entries of the inverse KLT matrix are equal to Berends--Giele double-currents (and are therefore easy to compute). And secondly, a simple formula to generate tree-level BCJ-satisfying numerators for arbitrary multiplicity is proposed by evaluating the field-theory limit of tree-level string amplitudes for various color orderings using double-color-ordered amplitudes.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.09731,
  title  = {Berends-Giele recursion for double-color-ordered amplitudes},
  author = {Carlos R. Mafra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09731},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

15 pages, harvmac TeX, v2: published version

R2 v1 2026-06-22T13:22:39.869Z