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By using on-shell recursion relation of string scattering amplitudes (SSA), we show that all n-point SSA of the open bosonic string theory can be expressed in terms of the Lauricella functions. This result extends the previous exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-28 Sheng-Hong Lai , Jen-Chi Lee , Yi Yang

At the tree level, the maximally helicity violating amplitudes of N gauge bosons in open superstring theory and of N gravitons in supergravity are known to have simple representations in terms of tree graphs. For superstrings, the graphs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

We review the structure of gauge theory scattering amplitudes at tree level and describe how a compact expression can be found which encodes all the tree-level amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 theory. The expressions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Drummond

We discuss nontrivial examples illustrating that perturbative gravity is in some sense the `square' of gauge theory. This statement can be made precise at tree-level using the Kawai, Lewellen and Tye relations between open and closed string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , M. Perelstein , J. S. Rozowsky

Any gravitational scattering amplitude takes a remarkably simple factorized form at tree level in multi-Regge kinematics (MRK), where the produced particles are strongly ordered in rapidity. Very recently, it was shown that also the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-21 Zhengwen Liu

In this paper, we explore the applicability of the BCFW-like recursion relations \cite{He:2018svj,Yang:2019esm} to a wider class of positive geometries. Previously it was found in \cite{Jagadale:2022rbl}, the tree level scattering amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Sujoy Mahato , Sourav Roychowdhury

We evaluate five point world-sheet string theory amplitudes of one transverse scalar field, two world volume gauge fields ( and two transverse scalars, a gauge field) in the presence of a closed string Ramond-Ramond vertex operator in its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-21 Ehsan Hatefi

We explicitly compute the tree-level on-shell four-graviton amplitudes in four, five and six dimensions for local and weakly nonlocal gravitational theories that are quadratic in both, the Ricci and scalar curvature with form factors of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Pietro Donà , Stefano Giaccari , Leonardo Modesto , Leslaw Rachwal , Yiwei Zhu

We study all tree-level split helicity gluon amplitudes by using the recently proposed BCFW recursion relation and Hodges diagrams in ambitwistor space. We pick out the contributing diagrams and find that all of them can be divided into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-07 Bin Chen , Jun-Bao Wu

A remarkable connection between perturbative scattering amplitudes of four-dimensional planar SYM, and the stratification of the positive grassmannian, was revealed in the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed et. al. Similar extension for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Yu-tin Huang , CongKao Wen

In this thesis massive higher derivative gravity theories are analyzed in some detail. One-particle scattering amplitude between two covariantly conserved sources mediated by a graviton exchange is found at tree-level in $D$ dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-01 Ibrahim Gullu

The existence of universal soft limits for gauge-theory and gravity amplitudes has been known for a long time. The properties of the soft limits have been exploited in numerous ways; in particular for relating an n-point amplitude to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Camille Boucher-Veronneau , Andrew J. Larkoski

We study n-point tree amplitudes of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity for general configurations of external particles of the two theories. We construct generating functions for n-point MHV and NMHV amplitudes with general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-08 Massimo Bianchi , Henriette Elvang , Daniel Z. Freedman

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

We identify a hidden GL(n,C) symmetry of the tree level n-point MHV gravity amplitude. Representations of this symmetry reside in an auxiliary n-space whose indices are external particle labels. Spinor helicity variables transform…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Clifford Cheung

Recently, the accordiohedron in kinematic space was proposed as the positive geometry for planar tree-level scattering amplitudes in the $\phi^p$ theory \cite{Raman:2019utu}. The scattering amplitudes are given as a weighted sum over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Ryota Kojima

We use tree-level perturbation theory to show how non-supersymmetric one-loop scattering amplitudes for a Higgs boson plus an arbitrary number of partons can be constructed, in the limit of a heavy top quark, from a generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Lance J. Dixon , E. W. N. Glover , Valentin V. Khoze

We study the three-particle and four-particle scattering amplitudes for an arbitrary, finite number of massive scalars, spinors and vectors by employing the on-shell massive spinor formalism. We consider the most general three-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-02 Da Liu , Zhewei Yin

Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory are independent of the field parameterization, which has a natural geometric interpretation as a form of `coordinate invariance.' Amplitudes can be expressed in terms of Riemannian curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Timothy Cohen , Nathaniel Craig , Xiaochuan Lu , Dave Sutherland

In this review we describe a non-trivial relationship between perturbative gauge theory and gravity scattering amplitudes. At the semi-classical or tree level, the scattering amplitudes of gravity theories in flat space can be expressed as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Zvi Bern