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The various formulations of scattering amplitudes presented in recent years have underlined a hidden unity among very different theories. The KLT and BCJ relations, together with the CHY formulation, connect the S-matrices of a wide range…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Max Bollmann , Livia Ferro

The simplicity and hidden symmetries of (Super) Yang-Mills and (Super)Gravity scattering amplitudes suggest the existence of a "weak-weak" dual formulation in which these structures are made manifest at the expense of manifest locality. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung , Jared Kaplan

The soft theorem states that scattering amplitude in gauge theory with a soft gauge-boson emission can be factorized into a hard scattering amplitude and a soft factor. In this paper, we present calculations of the soft factor for processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-25 Wen Chen , Ming-xing Luo , Tong-Zhi Yang , Hua Xing Zhu

We report the differential representation of three-point and four-point amplitudes for Yang-Mills fields and Einstein gravity in AdS at tree-level. The amplitudes exhibit the flat-space structures by using the weight-shifting operators with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Yue-Zhou Li

Building on our proposal in arXiv:2405.06629, we present in detail the construction of the extended phase space for Yang-Mills at null infinity, containing the asymptotic symmetries and the charges responsible for sub$^n$-leading soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-01 Silvia Nagy , Javier Peraza , Giorgio Pizzolo

We describe tree-level soft theorems for Chern-Simons QED and QCD in 4+1 dimensions. Soft theorems have been studied in various context in the past. The universal behavior of the leading and subleading soft theorems is understood as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Avi Wadhwa

Motivated by the problem of expanding single-trace tree-level amplitude of Einstein-Yang-Mills theory to the BCJ basis of Yang-Mills amplitudes, we present an alternative expansion formula in the gauge invariant vector space. Starting from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Bo Feng , Xiao-Di Li , Rijun Huang

Starting from the amplitude with an arbitrary number of massless closed states of the bosonic string, we compute the soft limit when one of the states becomes soft to subsubleading order in the soft momentum expansion, and we show that when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Paolo Di Vecchia , Raffaele Marotta , Matin Mojaza

We study the generalized $2$-split of higher-derivative amplitudes, including Yang-Mills (YM) and Gravity (GR) amplitudes with special insertions of higher-derivative vertices, by expanding them into ${\rm YM}\oplus{\rm BAS}$, ${\rm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Liang Zhang , Kang Zhou

We analyze scattering amplitudes with one soft external graviton and arbitrary number of other finite energy external states carrying arbitrary mass and spin to sub-subleading order in the momentum of the soft graviton. Our result can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Alok Laddha , Ashoke Sen

In this note, we derive and interpret hidden zeros of tree-level amplitudes of various theories, including Yang-Mills, non-linear sigma model, special Galileon, Dirac-Born-Infeld, and gravity, by utilizing universal expansions of tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Hao Huang , Ye Yang , Kang Zhou

We calculate the simultaneous double-soft limit of two massless closed strings scattering with any number of closed string tachyons to the subleading order at the tree level. The limit factorizes the scattering amplitude into a double-soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 Raffaele Marotta , Matin Mojaza

Recently, the short-distance asymptotics of the generating functional of $n$-point correlators of twist-$2$ operators in SU($N$) Yang-Mills (YM) theory has been worked out in [1]. The above computation relies on a basis change of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Francesco Scardino

A remarkable connection between BCFW recursion relations and constraints on the S-matrix was made by Benincasa and Cachazo in 0705.4305, who noted that mutual consistency of different BCFW constructions of four-particle amplitudes generates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-04 Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

We elaborate on the radiative behaviour of tree-level scattering amplitudes in the soft regime. We show that the sub-leading soft term in single-gluon emission of quark-gluon amplitudes in QCD is controlled by differential operators, whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Hui Luo , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , William J. Torres Bobadilla

BFSS proposed that asymptotically flat M-theory is dual to a large $N$ limit of the matrix quantum mechanics describing $N$ nonrelativistic D0-branes. Recent insights on the soft symmetries of any quantum theory of gravity in asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-01 Noah Miller , Andrew Strominger , Adam Tropper , Tianli Wang

In this work, we prove the new factorization pattern for tree-level Yang-Mills (YM) amplitudes proposed in a companion paper. This pattern reveals a decomposition of amplitudes into a sum of gluings of lower-point amplitudes under specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Yong Zhang

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

We exploit a conjectured continuity between super Yang-Mills on $\mathbb R^3\times \mathbb S^1$ and pure Yang-Mills to study $k$-strings in the latter theory. As expected, we find that Wilson-loop correlation functions depend on the N-ality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-01 Mohamed M. Anber , Vito Pellizzani

We extend the celestial Roiban-Spradlin-Volovich-Witten (RSVW) formalism developed in our previous work to minitwistor superspace. Using the Drummond-Henn formula for all tree-level amplitudes in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Igor Mol