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Recursion relations from soft theorems

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-04-20 v2

Abstract

We establish a set of new on-shell recursion relations for amplitudes satisfying soft theorems. The recursion relations can apply to those amplitudes whose additional physical inputs from soft theorems are enough to overcome the bad large-z behaviour. This work is a generalization of the recursion relations recently obtained by Cheung et al for amplitudes in scalar effective field theories with enhanced vanishing soft behaviours, which can be regarded as a special case of those with non-vanishing soft limits. We apply the recursion relations to tree-level amplitudes in various theories, including amplitudes in the Akulov-Volkov theory, amplitudes containing dilatons of spontaneously-broken conformal symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06801,
  title  = {Recursion relations from soft theorems},
  author = {Hui Luo and Congkao Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06801},
  year   = {2016}
}

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21 pages, typos and some statements modified, references added

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