Gauged Soft Recursion: On-Shell Construction of Goldstone-Gauge Amplitudes
Abstract
We present a new on-shell recursion relation for scattering amplitudes involving Nambu-Goldstone bosons with a gauged unbroken symmetry. A central challenge is that gauge interactions break Adler's zero condition for charged scalars, invalidating the standard soft recursion. To overcome this, we introduce a ``gauged soft recursion'' that leverages the soft theorems of the gauge bosons themselves, combined with a novel decomposition of amplitudes into gauge-invariant components where Adler's zero is partially restored. The formalism, which also incorporates internal gauge bosons via angular momentum constraints, enables the systematic construction of tree-level amplitudes with arbitrary numbers of Goldstone bosons and gauge bosons in both Abelian and non-Abelian theories, as we demonstrate with explicit examples.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.09403,
title = {Gauged Soft Recursion: On-Shell Construction of Goldstone-Gauge Amplitudes},
author = {Ian Low and Ming-Lei Xiao and Yu-Hui Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.09403},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
35 pages, 5 figures