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We identify a large class of one-loop amplitudes for massless particles that can be constructed via unitarity from tree amplitudes, without any ambiguities. One-loop amplitudes for massless supersymmetric gauge theories fall into this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

It was proposed in hep-th/0403047 that all tree amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory can be constructed from known MHV amplitudes. We apply this approach for calculating tree amplitudes of gauge fields and fermions and find agreement with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 George Georgiou , Valentin V. Khoze

In this note, we use the new bottom up method based on soft theorems to construct the expansion of single-trace Yang-Mills-scalar amplitudes recursively. The resulted expansion manifests the gauge invariance for any polarization carried by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Fang-Stars Wei , Kang Zhou

We derive new amplitudes relations revealing a hidden unity among wide-ranging theories in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. Our results rely on a set of Lorentz invariant differential operators which transmute physical tree-level scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Clifford Cheung , Chia-Hsien Shen , Congkao Wen

The idea of adding particles to construct amplitudes has been utilized in various ways in exploring the structure of scattering amplitudes. This idea is often called Inverse Soft Limit, namely it is the reverse mechanism of taking particles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Dhritiman Nandan , Congkao Wen

In this paper, we extend the method proposed in \cite{Arkani-Hamed:2024fyd} for deriving soft theorems of amplitudes, which relies exclusively on factorization properties including conventional factorizations on physical poles, as well as…

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

We review generalized unitarity as a means for obtaining loop amplitudes from on-shell tree amplitudes. The method is generally applicable to both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric amplitudes, including non-planar contributions. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , Yu-tin Huang

We show that a recently discovered relation, which expresses tree-level single trace Einstein-Yang-Mills amplitudes with one graviton and $(n-1)$ gauge bosons as a linear combination of pure Yang-Mills tree amplitudes with $n$ gauge bosons,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Leonardo de la Cruz , Alexander Kniss , Stefan Weinzierl

In this work we explore general leading singularities of one-loop amplitudes in higher-derivative Yang-Mills and quadratic gravity. These theories are known to possess propagators which contain quadratic and quartic momentum dependence,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Gabriel Menezes

Attached to both Yang-Mills and General Relativity about Minkowski spacetime are distinguished gauge independent objects known as the on-shell tree scattering amplitudes. We reinterpret and rigorously construct them as $L_\infty$ minimal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Andrea Nützi , Michael Reiterer

We carry out a gauge invariant analysis of certain perturbations of $D-2$-branes solutions of low energy string theories. We get generically a system of second order coupled differential equations, and show that only in very particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Adrián R. Lugo , Mauricio B. Sturla

We present new relations for scattering amplitudes of color ordered gluons and gravitons in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. Tree-level amplitudes of arbitrary multiplicities and polarizations involving up to three gravitons and up to two color…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-24 Dhritiman Nandan , Jan Plefka , Oliver Schlotterer , Congkao Wen

We use the universality of single soft behavior, together with the double copy structure, to completely determine the tree amplitudes of non-linear sigma model (NLSM). We first figure out the Adler's zero for $4$-point NLSM amplitudes, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou , Fang-Stars Wei

In addition to the superconformal symmetry of the underlying Lagrangian, the scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory exhibit a new, dual superconformal symmetry. We address the question of how powerful these symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-17 G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

A proof is given of the formula, recently proposed by Cachazo, He and Yuan (CHY) for gluon tree amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory in arbitrary dimension. The approach is to first establish the corresponding result for massless $\phi^3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Louise Dolan , Peter Goddard

A gauge and coordinate invariant perturbation theory for self-gravitating non-Abelian gauge fields is developed and used to analyze local uniqueness and linear stability properties of non-Abelian equilibrium configurations. It is shown that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Olivier Sarbach , Markus Heusler , Othmar Brodbeck

We present the first comprehensive analysis of the unitarity thresholds and anomalous thresholds of scattering amplitudes at two loops and beyond based on the loop-tree duality, and show how non-causal unphysical thresholds are locally…

All tree-level amplitudes in Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) theory and gravity (GR) can be expanded in terms of color ordered Yang-Mills (YM) ones whose coefficients are polynomial functions of Lorentz inner products and are constructed by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Linghui Hou , Yi-Jian Du

We study tree-level celestial amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory -- Mellin transforms of multi-gluon scattering amplitudes that convert them into the correlators of conformal primary fields on two-dimensional celestial sphere. By using purely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Tomasz R. Taylor

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