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Algebras for Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-04 v2

Abstract

Tree-level amplitudes of gauge theories are expressed in a basis of auxiliary amplitudes with only cubic vertices. The vertices in this formalism are explicitly factorized in color and kinematics, clarifying the color-kinematics duality in gauge theory amplitudes. The basis is constructed making use of the KK and BCJ relations, thereby showing precisely how these relations underlie the color-kinematics duality. We express gravity amplitudes in terms of a related basis of color-dressed gauge theory amplitudes, with basis coefficients which are permutation symmetric.

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@article{arxiv.1203.0944,
  title  = {Algebras for Amplitudes},
  author = {N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr and Poul H. Damgaard and Ricardo Monteiro and Donal O'Connell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0944},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages, 1 figure. v2: published version, example added in appendix

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