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Quantum Off-Shell Recursion Relation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-05-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We construct off-shell recursion relations for arbitrary loop-level scattering amplitudes beyond the conventional tree-level recursion relations for ϕ4\phi^{4}-theory and the Yang-Mills theory. We define a quantum perturbiner expansion that includes loop corrections from the quantum effective action formalism by identifying the external source. Our method clearly shows how the perturbiner expansion becomes an off-shell current generating function. Instead of using the classical equations of motion in the conventional perturbiner method, we exploit the Dyson-Schwinger equation to derive the quantum off-shell recursion relation to arbitrary order of loop-level scattering amplitudes. We solve the recursion relation and reproduce the results which agree up to one-loop six-point scattering amplitudes for ϕ4\phi^{4}-theory. Furthermore, we construct the recursions for computing loop-level correlation functions by replacing the choice of the external source.

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@article{arxiv.2202.08133,
  title  = {Quantum Off-Shell Recursion Relation},
  author = {Kanghoon Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08133},
  year   = {2022}
}

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33 pages, 4 figures; v2: typos fixed and references added, published version