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Gluon Tree Amplitudes in Open Twistor String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-15 v2

Abstract

We show how the link variables of Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo, Cheung and Kaplan (ACCK), can be used to compute general gluon tree amplitudes in the twistor string. They arise from instanton sectors labelled by d, with d=n-1, where n is the number of negative helicities. Read backwards, this shows how the various forms for the tree amplitudes studied by ACCK can be grouped into contour integrals whose structure implies the existence of an underlying string theory.

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@article{arxiv.0909.0499,
  title  = {Gluon Tree Amplitudes in Open Twistor String Theory},
  author = {Louise Dolan and Peter Goddard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0499},
  year   = {2009}
}

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36 pages

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