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Recently, tree-level recursion relations for scattering amplitudes of gluons in Yang-Mills theory have been derived. In this note we propose a generalization of the recursion relations to tree-level scattering amplitudes of gravitons. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Freddy Cachazo , Peter Svrcek

In the maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) configuration, tree-level single-trace Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) amplitude with one and two gravitons have been shown to satisfy a formula where each graviton splits into a pair of collinear gluons.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 Zhirun Li , Yi-Jian Du

In this paper, we generalize the Nguyen-Spradlin-Volovich-Wen (NSVW) tree formula from the MHV sector to any helicity sector. We find a close connection between the Permutohedron and the KLT relation, and construct a non-trivial mapping…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Qu Cao , Liang Zhang

We prove the MHV vertex expansion for all tree amplitudes of N=4 SYM theory. The proof uses a shift acting on all external momenta, and we show that every N^kMHV tree amplitude falls off as 1/z^k, or faster, for large z under this shift.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Henriette Elvang , Daniel Z. Freedman , Michael Kiermaier

We demonstrate that the tree level amplitudes and the explicit formulas of soft factors can be uniquely determined by soft theorems and the universality of soft factors. By imposing the soft theorems and the universality, as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou

We investigate MHV tree-level gravity amplitudes as defined on the spinor-helicity variety. Unlike their gluon counterparts, the gravity amplitudes do not have logarithmic singularities and do not admit Amplituhedron-like construction.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Joris Koefler , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka , Bailee Zacovic

We develop a manifestly supersymmetric version of the generalized unitarity cut method for calculating scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. We illustrate the power of this method by computing the one-loop n-point NMHV super-amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We consider scattering amplitudes in planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in special kinematics where all external four-dimensional momenta are restricted to a (1+1)-dimensional subspace. The amplitudes are known to satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Timothy Goddard , Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze

We show how the recently introduced "Pure Connection Formulation" of gravity provides a natural framework for approaching the problem of computing graviton scattering amplitudes. In particular, we show that the interaction vertices are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-19 Gianluca Delfino

We construct an expression for the n-point one-loop graviton scattering amplitude with a single negative helicity external leg using an augmented recursion technique. We analyse the soft-limits of these amplitudes and demonstrate that they…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Sam D. Alston , David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins

We discuss the calculation of one-loop amplitudes in N=8 supergravity using MHV diagrams. In contrast to MHV amplitudes of gluons in Yang-Mills, tree-level MHV amplitudes of gravitons are not holomorphic in the spinor variables. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Adele Nasti , Gabriele Travaglini

In arXiv:2008.04330 it was shown that supertranslation and $\overline{SL(2,\mathbb C)}$ current algebra symmetries, corresponding to leading and subleading soft graviton theorems, are enough to determine the tree level MHV graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh , Sai Satyam Samal

We obtain a CSW-style formalism for calculating graviton scattering amplitudes and prove its validity through the use of a special type of BCFW-like parameter shift. The procedure is illustrated with explicit examples.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Harald Ita , Warren B. Perkins , Kasper Risager

We use the embedding of Einstein gravity with cosmological constant into conformal gravity as a basis for using the twistor action for conformal gravity to obtain MHV scattering amplitudes not just for conformal gravity, but also for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason

As an alternative to the usual Feynman graphs, tree amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory can be constructed from tree graphs in which the vertices are tree level MHV scattering amplitudes, continued off shell in a particular fashion. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Freddy Cachazo , Peter Svrcek , Edward Witten

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 show that the Mellin transform of an $n$-point tree level MHV gluon scattering amplitude, also known as the celestial amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory, satisfies a system of $(n-2)$ linear first order partial differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh

This article proves the cyclicity of anti-NMHV and N$^2$MHV tree amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM up to any number of external particles as an interesting application of positive Grassmannian geometry. In this proof the two-fold simplex-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Junjie Rao

In this paper a supersymmetric version of a generalized unitarity cut method in application to MHV and NMHV for form factors of operators from the N=4 SYM stress-tensor current supermultiplet $T^{AB}$ at one loop is discussed. The explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 L. V. Bork

It has been recently conjectured that scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills are given by the volume of the (dual) amplituhedron. In this paper we show some interesting connections between the tree-level amplituhedron and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Andrea Orta , Matteo Parisi