Constraints and generalized gauge transformations on tree-level gluon and graviton amplitudes

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2010)028zbMATH Open1294.81295arXiv1007.3475MaRDI QIDQ406920FDOQ406920

Authors: Diana Vaman, York-Peng Yao 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

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

Abstract: Writing the fully color dressed and graviton amplitudes, respectively, as $$ and $$, where $|A>$ is a set of Kleiss-Kuijf color-ordered basis, $|N>,$| ilde N> $and$|C>$arethesimilarlyorderednumeratorsandcolorcoefficients,weshowthatthepropagatormatrix$M$has$(n-3)(n-3)!$independenteigenvectors$|lambda ^0_j>$withzeroeigenvalue,for$n$-particleprocesses.Theresultingequations$<lambda ^0_j|A> = 0$arerelationsamongthecolororderedamplitudes.Thefreedomtoshift$|N> o |N> +sum_j f_j|lambda ^0_j>$andsimilarlyfor$| ilde N>$,where$f_j$are$(n-3)(n-3)!$arbitraryfunctions,encodesgeneralizedgaugetransformations.TheyyieldbothBCJamplitudeandKLTrelations,whensuchfreedomisaccountedfor.Furthermore,$f_j$ can be promoted to the role of effective Lagrangian vertices in the field operator space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3475

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zbMATH Keywords

duality in gauge field theoriesgauge symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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