Propagators, BCFW recursion and new scattering equations at one loop

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2020)074zbMATH Open1456.81452arXiv2007.00623MaRDI QIDQ2657751FDOQ2657751

Arthur E. Lipstein, Ricardo Stark-Muchão, Yvonne Geyer, Joseph A. Farrow, Ricardo Monteiro

Publication date: 14 March 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate how loop-level propagators arise from tree level via a forward-limit procedure in two modern approaches to scattering amplitudes, namely the BCFW recursion relations and the scattering equations formalism. In the first part of the paper, we revisit the BCFW construction of one-loop integrands in momentum space, using a convenient parametrisation of the D-dimensional loop momentum. We work out explicit examples with and without supersymmetry, and discuss the non-planar case in both gauge theory and gravity. In the second part of the paper, we study an alternative approach to one-loop integrands, where these are written as worldsheet formulas based on new one-loop scattering equations. These equations, which are inspired by BCFW, lead to standard Feynman-type propagators, instead of the `linear'-type loop-level propagators that first arose from the formalism of ambitwistor strings. We exploit the analogies between the two approaches, and present a proof of an all-multiplicity worldsheet formula using the BCFW recursion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00623

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetryscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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