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We investigate color-kinematics duality for gauge-theory amplitudes produced by the pure nonabelian Yang-Mills action deformed by higher-dimension operators. For the operator denoted by F^3, the product of three field strengths, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-24 Johannes Broedel , Lance J. Dixon

We construct a simple Lorentz-invariant action for maximally supersymmetric self-dual Yang-Mills theory that manifests colour-kinematics duality. We also show that this action double copies to a known action for maximally supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-28 Leron Borsten , Branislav Jurco , Hyungrok Kim , Tommaso Macrelli , Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

We consider the double copy of massive Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions, whose decoupling limit is a nonlinear sigma model. The latter may be regarded as the leading terms in the low energy effective theory of a heavy Higgs model, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-09 Arshia Momeni , Justinas Rumbutis , Andrew J. Tolley

By considering N=2 string amplitudes we determine the (2+2)-dimensional target space action for the physical degrees of freedom: self-dual gravity and self-dual Yang-Mills, together with their respective infinite towers of higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Chandrashekar Devchand , Olaf Lechtenfeld

Colour-kinematics duality is the conjecture of a group theory-like structure for the kinematic dependence of scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity. This structure has been verified at tree level in various ways, but similar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-18 Rutger H. Boels , Reinke Sven Isermann , Ricardo Monteiro , Donal O'Connell

Using the ambitwistor string, we compute tree-level celestial amplitudes for biadjoint scalars, Yang-Mills and gravity to all multiplicities. They are presented in compact CHY-like formulas with operator-valued scattering equations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Eduardo Casali , Atul Sharma

We discuss within the weak-field approximation and the derivative expansion how the area law of the Wilson loop follows directly from the vacuum condensate of mass dimension 2, i.e., simultaneous Bose-Einstein condensation of gluon pair and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -I. Kondo , T. Imai

In this work we use constructs from the dual space of the semi-direct product of the Virasoro algebra and the affine Lie algebra of a circle to write a theory of gravitation which is a natural analogue of Yang-Mills theory. The theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas Branson , R. P. Lano , V. G. J. Rodgers

We consider a broad class of massive four dimensional effective theories describing an infinite tower of charged massive spin 1 states, interacting with massless spin 1 and spin 0. The spectrum is chosen to be the same as that appears in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-09 Arshia Momeni , Justinas Rumbutis , Andrew J. Tolley

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes and classical solutions in non-abelian gauge theories and gravity. As such, it is usually expressed in the conventional second-order formalisms in both theories corresponding to standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Nathan Moynihan , Michael L. Reichenberg Ashby , Chris D. White

We find double copy relations between classical radiating solutions in Yang-Mills theory coupled to dynamical color charges and their counterparts in a cubic bi-adjoint scalar field theory which interacts linearly with particles carrying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-29 Walter D. Goldberger , Siddharth G. Prabhu , Jedidiah O. Thompson

Here we discuss color-kinematics duality for higher-derivative QCD-like amplitudes. We explicitly show that the duality still holds in this case and it can be instrumental in constructing the associated quadratic-gravity amplitudes by using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Gabriel Menezes

We clarify the relation between the classical double copy and the double copy for amplitudes in the setting of selfdual gauge and gravity theories. To this end we construct explicit all-order perturbative solutions in these theories and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Joris Raeymaekers

In earlier work we proposed a string theory dual to two dimensional Yang-Mills theory at zero coupling (which can also be thought of as a $BF$ theory), given by a Polyakov-like generalization of Ho\v rava's topological rigid string theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Ofer Aharony , Suman Kundu , Tal Sheaffer

We use the duality between color and kinematics to obtain scattering amplitudes in non-minimal conformal N=0,1,2,4 (super)gravity theories. Generic tree amplitudes can be constructed from a double copy between (super-)Yang-Mills theory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-11 Henrik Johansson , Josh Nohle

It is well known that by using the infinite dimensional symmetries that issue from string theories, one can build 2D geometric field theories. These 2D field theories can be identified with gravitational and gauge anomalies that arise in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 R. P. Lano , V. G. J. Rodgers

Recently a powerful duality between color and kinematics has been proposed for integrands of scattering amplitudes in quite general gauge theories. In this paper the duality proposal is extended to the more general class of gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Rutger H. Boels , Bernd A. Kniehl , Oleg V. Tarasov , Gang Yang

Recently, a double-copy formalism was used to calculate gravitational radiation from classical Yang-Mills radiation solutions. This work shows that Yang-Mills theory coupled to a biadjoint scalar field admits a radiative double copy that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 David Chester

The double copy is by now a well-established relationship between scattering amplitudes and classical solutions in gauge and gravity (field) theories, and is itself inspired by amplitude relations in string theory. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Riccardo Morieri , Igor Pesando , Michael L. Reichenberg Ashby , Chris D. White

In a previous paper we observed that (classical) tree-level gauge theory amplitudes can be rearranged to display a duality between color and kinematics. Once this is imposed, gravity amplitudes are obtained using two copies of gauge-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Zvi Bern , John Joseph M. Carrasco , Henrik Johansson