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Loop Amplitudes and Quantum Homotopy Algebras

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-07-07 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We derive a recursion relation for loop-level scattering amplitudes of Lagrangian field theories that generalises the tree-level Berends-Giele recursion relation in Yang-Mills theory. The origin of this recursion relation is the homological perturbation lemma, which allows us to compute scattering amplitudes from minimal models of quantum homotopy algebras in a recursive way. As an application of our techniques, we give an alternative proof of the relation between non-planar and planar colour-stripped scattering amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.1912.06695,
  title  = {Loop Amplitudes and Quantum Homotopy Algebras},
  author = {Branislav Jurco and Tommaso Macrelli and Christian Saemann and Martin Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06695},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages, slightly extended presentation, published version

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