Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-03-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Single-minus tree-level -gluon scattering amplitudes are reconsidered. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configurations existing in Klein space or for complexified momenta. We derive a piecewise-constant closed-form expression for the decay of a single minus-helicity gluon into plus-helicity gluons as a function of their momenta. This formula nontrivially satisfies multiple consistency conditions including Weinberg's soft theorem.
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@article{arxiv.2602.12176,
title = {Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero},
author = {Alfredo Guevara and Alexandru Lupsasca and David Skinner and Andrew Strominger and Kevin Weil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12176},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages, no figures. v2: minor edits