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Loops from Cuts

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-05-04 v1

Abstract

We derive novel recursion relations for all loop amplitude integrands of planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of unitarity-like `cuts' obtained via sequences of BCFW deformations in momentum-twistor space.

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@article{arxiv.2305.01673,
  title  = {Loops from Cuts},
  author = {Jacob L. Bourjaily and Simon Caron-Huot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01673},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

5+1 pages; 2 figures. Ancillary files implement and illustrate our main results

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