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One-Loop n-Point Helicity Amplitudes in (Self-Dual) Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-15 v2

Abstract

We present an ansatz for all one-loop amplitudes in pure Einstein gravity for which the n external gravitons have the same outgoing helicity. These loop amplitudes, which are rational functions of the momenta, also arise in the quantization of self-dual gravity in four-dimensional Minkowski space. Our ansatz agrees with explicit computations via D-dimensional unitarity cuts for n less than or equal to 6. It also has the expected analytic behavior, for all n, as a graviton becomes soft, and as two momenta become collinear. The gravity results are closely related to analogous amplitudes in (self-dual) Yang-Mills theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9809160,
  title  = {One-Loop n-Point Helicity Amplitudes in (Self-Dual) Gravity},
  author = {Z. Bern and L. Dixon and M. Perelstein and J. S. Rozowsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9809160},
  year   = {2010}
}

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