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We consider a family of discrete Jacobi operators on the one-dimensional integer lattice with Laplacian and potential terms modulated by a primitive invertible two-letter substitution. We investigate the spectrum and the spectral type, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-10 May Mei , William Yessen

We review the recently developed bootstrap method for the computation of high-multiplicity QCD amplitudes at one loop. We illustrate the general algorithm step by step with a six-point example. The method combines (generalized) unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger

We describe the application of a novel approach for the reduction of scattering amplitudes, based on multivariate polynomial division, which we have recently presented. This technique yields the complete integrand decomposition for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-17 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Edoardo Mirabella , Giovanni Ossola , Tiziano Peraro

We present an explicit formula for the n-point MHV one-loop amplitude in a N=4 supergravity theory. This formula is derived from the soft and collinear factorisations of the amplitude.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

We consider the finite part of the leading local interactions in the low energy expansion of the four graviton amplitude from the ladder skeleton diagrams in maximal supergravity on T^2, at three and four loops. At three loops, we express…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Anirban Basu

We present an alternative reduction to master integrals for one-loop amplitudes using a unitarity cut method in arbitrary dimensions. We carry out the reduction in two steps. The first step is a pure four-dimensional cut-integration of tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

In this paper, we introduce a simple and efficient approach for the general reduction of one-loop integrals. Our method employs the introduction of an auxiliary vector and the identification of the tensor structure as an auxiliary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-01 Liang Zhang

We compute helicity amplitudes for the one-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production analytically in terms of a set of uniformly transcendental master integrals. We provide corrections up to $O(\epsilon^2)$ in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-29 Simon Badger , Matteo Becchetti , Ekta Chaubey , Robin Marzucca , Francesco Sarandrea

Form factors of self-dual gauge theory are equal to correlators of an (extended) celestial chiral algebra. This suggests that these form factors can be computed using the "bootstrap" method familiar from 2d CFTs. The method can also be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-11 Kevin J. Costello

In the context of constructing one-loop amplitudes using a unitarity bootstrap approach we discuss a general systematic procedure for obtaining the coefficients of the scalar bubble and triangle integral functions of one-loop amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-07 Darren Forde

We initiate a systematic study on how to extract planar integrands of (supersymmetric) scattering amplitudes with $L$ loops and $n$ legs in Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory from the recently proposed (bosonic) generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Song He , Yao-Qi Zhang

We study the problem of calculating two-loop three-point diagrams with irreducible numerators (i.e. numerators which cannot be expressed in terms of the denominators). For the case of massless internal particles and arbitrary (off-shell)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Natalia I. Ussyukina , Andrei I. Davydychev

We present a semi-recursive method for calculating the rational parts of one-loop gravity amplitudes which utilises axial gauge diagrams to determine the non-factorising pieces of the amplitude. This method is used to compute the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

We present an optimization of the reduction algorithm of one-loop amplitudes in terms of master integrals. It is based on the exploitation of the polynomial structure of the integrand when evaluated at values of the loop-momentum fulfilling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Mastrolia , G. Ossola , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau

We recently presented a new method for the evaluation of one-loop amplitude of arbitrary scattering processes, in which the reduction to scalar integrals is performed at the integrand level. In this talk, we review the main features of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-17 Giovanni Ossola

We suggest a new approach for the automatic and fully numerical evaluation of one-loop scattering amplitudes in perturbative quantum field theory. We use suitably formulated dispersion relations to perform the calculation as a convolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-29 M. Moretti , F. Piccinini , A. D. Polosa

Unitarity cut method has been proved to be very useful in the computation of one-loop integrals. In this paper, we generalize the method to the situation where the powers of propagators in the denominator are larger than one in general. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Bo Feng , Hongbin Wang

We show how the holomorphic anomaly found in hep-th/0409245 can be used to efficiently compute certain classes of unitarity cuts of one-loop N=4 amplitudes of gluons. These classes include all cuts of n-gluon one-loop MHV amplitudes and of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Freddy Cachazo

We obtain full-color three-loop three-point form factors of the stress-tensor supermultiplet and also of a length-3 half-BPS operator in N=4 SYM based on the color-kinematics duality and on-shell unitarity. The integrand results are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-08 Guanda Lin , Gang Yang , Siyuan Zhang