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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

We investigate the existence of relations for finite one-loop amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory. Using a diagrammatic formalism and a remarkable connection between tree and loop level, we deduce sequences of amplitude relations for any number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Henrik Johansson , Thomas Sondergaard

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 Ward identities for amplitudes at the tree level are derived from symmetries of the corresponding classical dynamical systems. The results are applied to some 2 into n amplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Joanna Domienik , Piotr Kosinski

By means of a kinematic analysis of tree level graviton amplitudes we find, at least through six points, that the reason of their decompositon as a sum over products of Yang-Mills amplitudes is on-shell gauge invariance and unitarity. As a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Luiz Antonio Barreiro , Ricardo Medina

In this letter, we focus on the application of the off-shell recursion method proposed in \cite{Tao:2025fch} in the Yang-Mills planar loop integrands, which starts with solving the classical equation of motion via the perturbiner method.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Yi-Xiao Tao

The one-loop corrections to the supersymmetric Ward-Takahashi identity (WTi) are investigated in the off-shell regime in the Wilson formulation of the discretized N=1 Super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. The study of the continuum limit as well…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 A. Feo

This paper studies various properties of amplitudes in 3d super Yang Mills theory. First we explain how to obtain the amplitudes of 3d super Yang Mills theories from 4d super Yang Mills theories and obtain their helicity structure. Next, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Arthur E. Lipstein , Lionel Mason

We present examples of on-shell recurrence relations for determining rational functions appearing in one-loop QCD amplitudes. In particular, we give relations for one-loop QCD amplitudes with all legs of positive helicity, or with one leg…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

We show that on-shell recursion relations hold for tree amplitudes in generic two derivative theories of multiple particle species and diverse spins. For example, in a gauge theory coupled to scalars and fermions, any amplitude with at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Clifford Cheung

This article studies methods to obtain relations for scattering amplitudes at the loop level, with concrete examples at one loop. These methods originate in the analysis of large so-called Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten shifts of tree level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Rutger H. Boels , Reinke Sven Isermann

In this note, we study the $\mathcal{Q}$-cut representation by combining it with BCFW deformation. As a consequence, the one-loop integrand is expressed in terms of a recursion relation, i.e., $n$-point one-loop integrand is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Bo Feng , Song He , Rijun Huang , Ming-xing Luo

We propose a new, twistor string theory inspired formalism to calculate loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. In this approach, maximal helicity violating (MHV) tree amplitudes of N=4 super Yang-Mills are used as vertices, using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We study matrix elements of Fourier-transformed straight infinite Wilson lines as a way to calculate gauge invariant tree-level amplitudes with off-shell gluons. The off-shell gluons are assigned "polarization vectors" which (in the Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Piotr Kotko

The leading singularities of one-loop scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory are known to factorise into products of tree-level amplitudes, and this can be seen from a number of different perspectives e.g.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 James Drummond , Matthew Rochford , Rowan Wright

We argue that generic one-loop scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories can be computed equivalently with MHV diagrams or with Feynman diagrams. We first present a general proof of the covariance of one-loop non-MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We generalize the unifying relations for tree amplitudes to the $1$-loop Feynman integrands. By employing the $1$-loop CHY formula, we construct differential operators which transmute the $1$-loop gravitational Feynman integrand to Feynman…

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

We consider the duality between the four-dimensional S-matrix of planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and the expectation value of polygonal shaped Wilson loops in the same theory. We extend the duality to amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Simon Caron-Huot

The BCFW recursion relations provide a powerful way to compute tree amplitudes in gauge theories and gravity, but only hold if some amplitudes vanish when two of the momenta are taken to infinity in a particular complex direction. This is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jared Kaplan

A reformulation of the superconformal Ward identities that combines all the superconformal currents and the associated parameters in one multiplet is given for theories with rigid N=1 or N=2 supersymmetry. This form of the Ward Identities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. S. Howe , P. C. West