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arxiv: 1404.5551 · v1 · pith:LOONU6SVnew · submitted 2014-04-22 · ✦ hep-th

Soft sub-leading divergences in Yang-Mills amplitudes

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords amplitudessoftsub-leadingtree-levelyang-millsanalogouscachazocolour-ordered
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In this short note I show that the soft limit for colour-ordered tree-level Yang-Mills amplitudes contains a sub-leading divergent term analogous to terms found recently by Cachazo and Strominger for tree-level gravity amplitudes.

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