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Open loop amplitudes and causality to all orders and powers from the loop-tree duality

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-06-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Multiloop scattering amplitudes describing the quantum fluctuations at high-energy scattering processes are the main bottleneck in perturbative quantum field theory. The loop-tree duality is a novel method aimed at overcoming this bottleneck by opening the loop amplitudes into trees and combining them at integrand level with the real-emission matrix elements. In this Letter, we generalize the loop-tree duality to all orders in the perturbative expansion by using the complex Lorentz-covariant prescription of the original one-loop formulation. We introduce a series of mutiloop topologies with arbitrary internal configurations and derive very compact and factorizable expressions of their open-to-trees representation in the loop-tree duality formalism. Furthermore, these expressions are entirely independent at integrand level of the initial assignments of momentum flows in the Feynman representation and remarkably free of noncausal singularities. These properties, that we conjecture to hold to other topologies at all orders, provide integrand representations of scattering amplitudes that exhibit manifest causal singular structures and better numerical stability than in other representations.

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@article{arxiv.2001.03564,
  title  = {Open loop amplitudes and causality to all orders and powers from the loop-tree duality},
  author = {J. Jesus Aguilera-Verdugo and Felix Driencourt-Mangin and Roger J. Hernandez-Pinto and Judith Plenter and Selomit Ramirez-Uribe and Andres E. Renteria-Olivo and German Rodrigo and German F. R. Sborlini and William J. Torres Bobadilla and Szymon Tracz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.03564},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Final version to appear in Physical Review Letters

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