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We present a functional derivation of recursion rules for scattering amplitudes in a non-Abelian gauge theory in a form valid to arbitrary loop order. The tree-level and one-loop recursion rules are explicitly displayed.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Chanju Kim , V. P. Nair

Motivated by recent progress in calculating field theory amplitudes, we study applications of the basic ideas in these developments to the calculation of amplitudes in string theory. We consider in particular both non-Abelian and Abelian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-28 Rutger Boels , Kasper J. Larsen , Niels A. Obers , Marcel Vonk

Fermions on a cylinder coupled to gravity and gauge fields are examined by studying the geometric action associated with the symmetries of such a system. The gauge coupling constant is shown to be constrained and the effect of gravity on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 R. P. Lano , V. G. J. Rodgers

We study the application of recursion relations to the calculation of finite one-loop gravity amplitudes. It is shown explicitly that the known four, five, and six graviton one-loop amplitudes for which the external legs have identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Simon McNamara , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

Gauge theory amplitudes in a non-helicity format are generated at all $n$-point and at tree level. These amplitudes inherit structure from $\phi^3$ classical scattering, and the string inspired formalism is used to find the tensor algebra.…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

We derive a link representation for all tree amplitudes in N=8 supergravity, from a recent conjecture by Cachazo and Skinner. The new formula explicitly writes amplitudes as contour integrals over constrained link variables, with an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Song He

KLT relations on $S_2$ factorize closed string amplitudes into product of open string tree amplitudes. The field theory limits of KLT factorization relations hold in minimal coupling theory of gauge field and gravity. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-30 Yi-Xin Chen , Yi-Jian Du , Qian Ma

We show that tree level superstring theories on certain supersymmetric backgrounds admit a symmetry which we call ``fermionic T-duality''. This is a non-local redefinition of the fermionic worldsheet fields similar to the redefinition we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Nathan Berkovits , Juan Maldacena

We construct the gluon wave functions, fragmentation functions and scattering amplitudes within the light-front perturbation theory. Recursion relations on the light-front are constructed for the wave functions and fragmentation functions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 C. A. Cruz-Santiago , A. M. Stasto

We describe a new set of public, self-contained, and versatile computational tools for the investigation, manipulation, and evaluation of tree-level amplitudes in pure (super)Yang-Mills and (super)Gravity, $\phi^p$-scalar field theory, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

Over the past year, the "scalar-scaffolding" formalism has revealed a number of new features of gluon amplitudes. In this paper, we leverage these developments to study two distinct but related questions, linked by the scaffolding statement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Jeffrey V. Backus , Carolina Figueiredo

We present a field theoretical proof of the conjectured KLT relation which states that the full tree-level scattering amplitude of gluons can be written as a product of color-ordered amplitude of gluons and color-ordered amplitude of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Yi-Jian Du , Bo Feng , Chih-Hao Fu

On-shell recursion relation has been recognized as a powerful tool for calculating tree level amplitudes in quantum field theory, but it doesn't work well when the residue of the deformed amplitude $\hat{A}(z)$ doesn't vanish at infinity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Chang Hu , Xiao-Di Li , Yi Li

New methods are introduced for the description and evaluation of tree-level gravitational scattering amplitudes. An N=7 super-symmetric recursion, free from spurious double poles, gives a more efficient method for evaluating MHV amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-26 Andrew Hodges

Investigations of high-energy graviton-graviton and gluon-gluon scattering are performed in the leading eikonal approximation for the kinematic regime of large center of mass energy and low momentum transfer. We find a double copy relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Ryo Saotome , Ratindranath Akhoury

We extract cubic interactions from the covariant equations of motion of Chiral Higher Spin Gravity and compute the corresponding amplitudes. These amplitudes are found to agree with earlier results obtained in the light-cone gauge. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-09 Robin Guarini

The BCFW recursion relation allows to find out the tree-level scattering amplitudes for gluons and tensor gauge bosons in generalized Yang-Mills theory. We demonstrate that the corresponding MHV amplitudes for the tensor gauge bosons of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-07 Ignatios Antoniadis , George Savvidy

Lecture notes on Poincar\'e-invariant scattering amplitudes and tree-level recursion relations in spinor-helicity formalism. We illustrate the non-perturbative constraints imposed over on-shell amplitudes by the Lorentz Little Group, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-30 Andrea Marzolla

The quantum correlations of scalar fields are examined as a power series in derivatives. Recursive algebraic equations are derived and determine the amplitudes; all loop integrations are performed. This recursion contains the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

The fundamental BCJ-relation is a linear relation between primitive tree amplitudes with different cyclic orderings. The cyclic orderings differ by the insertion place of one gluon. The coefficients of the fundamental BCJ-relation are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-09 Leonardo de la Cruz , Alexander Kniss , Stefan Weinzierl