Supersymmetry, R-symmetry, and positivity constrain planar 4d EFTs to match the open string Veneziano amplitude at tree level.
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New Recursion Relations for Tree Amplitudes of Gluons
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We present new recursion relations for tree amplitudes in gauge theory that give very compact formulas. Our relations give any tree amplitude as a sum over terms constructed from products of two amplitudes of fewer particles multiplied by a Feynman propagator. The two amplitudes in each term are physical, in the sense that all particles are on-shell and momentum conservation is preserved. This is striking, since it is just like adding certain factorization limits of the original amplitude to build up the full answer. As examples, we recompute all known tree-level amplitudes of up to seven gluons and show that our recursion relations naturally give their most compact forms. We give a new result for an eight-gluon amplitude, A(1+,2-,3+,4-,5+,6-,7+,8-). We show how to build any amplitude in terms of three-gluon amplitudes only.
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S-matrix consistency forces the complete gluon amplitude structure and requires Yang-Mills Lie algebra plus Higgs mechanism for unitarised massive vector boson scattering.
A recursion for NLSM tree amplitudes based on hidden zeros reproduces the Adler zero, generates amplitudes from Tr(φ³) via δ-shift, expands them into bi-adjoint scalars, and claims these plus factorization uniquely determine all tree-level NLSM amplitudes.
Reconstruction of known soft factors via transmutation operators and proof of nonexistence of higher-order universal soft factors for YM and GR amplitudes.
Derives expansion formulas for multi-trace YMS amplitudes bottom-up from soft gluon and scalar behaviors.
A recursive construction expands tree YM amplitudes to YMS and BAS amplitudes from soft theorems while preserving gauge invariance at each step.
Adapts BCFW-style recursion to deformed ABHY-associahedron and D-type cluster polytopes for tree-level and one-loop amplitudes in multi-scalar cubic theories.
Extends a 2-split factorization approach to reproduce known leading and sub-leading soft theorems for Tr(φ³) and YM single-soft and NLSM double-soft amplitudes while deriving higher-order universal forms and a kinematic relation linking YM gauge invariance to NLSM Adler zero.
Recursive construction of off-shell NLSM and SG tree amplitudes from bootstrapped low-point ones via universal soft behaviors, automatically producing enhanced Adler zeros on-shell.
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Tree-level amplitudes for Yang-Mills-scalar, pure Yang-Mills, Einstein-Yang-Mills and gravitational theories are reconstructed from soft theorems, universality of soft factors and double copy, with explicit soft factors determined.
Locality, unitarity, and hidden zeros determine tree-level YM and NLSM amplitudes by reconstructing their soft theorems.
Hidden zeros in NLSM amplitudes are proven via modified BCFW recursion, with 2-split holding only under careful current definition.
Extends soft-behavior approach to construct tree YM and YMS amplitudes with F^3 (and F^3+F^4) insertions as universal expansions, plus a conjectured general formula for higher-mass-dimension YM amplitudes from ordinary ones.
A recursive expansion of single-trace YMS amplitudes is built from soft theorems; the result is gauge invariant, permutation symmetric, and equivalent to the Cheung-Mangan covariant color-kinematic duality construction.
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