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Inherited Twistor-Space Structure of Gravity Loop Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

At tree-level, gravity amplitudes are obtainable directly from gauge theory amplitudes via the Kawai, Lewellen and Tye closed-open string relations. We explain how the unitarity method allows us to use these relations to obtain coefficients of box integrals appearing in one-loop N=8 supergravity amplitudes from the recent computation of the coefficients for N=4 super-Yang-Mills non-maximally-helicity-violating amplitudes. We argue from factorisation that these box coefficients determine the one-loop N=8 supergravity amplitudes, although this remains to be proven. We also show that twistor-space properties of the N=8 supergravity amplitudes are inherited from the corresponding properties of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We give a number of examples illustrating these ideas.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0501137,
  title  = {Inherited Twistor-Space Structure of Gravity Loop Amplitudes},
  author = {Zvi Bern and N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr and David C. Dunbar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0501137},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

32 pages, minor typos corrected

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