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

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2010)028MaRDI QIDQ406920zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Diana Vaman, York-Peng Yao

Publication date 29 August 2014

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

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

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)

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.

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