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arxiv: hep-th/0501052 · v2 · submitted 2005-01-07 · ✦ hep-th

Direct Proof Of Tree-Level Recursion Relation In Yang-Mills Theory

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Recently, by using the known structure of one-loop scattering amplitudes for gluons in Yang-Mills theory, a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes has been deduced. Here, we give a short and direct proof of this recursion relation based on properties of tree-level amplitudes only.

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