Weighted Laplacians, cocycles and recursion relations

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2013)040zbMATH Open1342.83217arXiv1310.0653MaRDI QIDQ737813FDOQ737813

Authors: Carlos Scarinci, Kirill Krasnov 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: Hodge's formula represents the gravitational MHV amplitude as the determinant of a minor of a certain matrix. When expanded, this determinant becomes a sum over weighted trees, which is the form of the MHV formula first obtained by Bern, Dixon, Perelstein, Rozowsky and rediscovered by Nguyen, Spradlin, Volovich and Wen. The gravity MHV amplitude satisfies the Britto, Cachazo, Feng and Witten recursion relation. The main building block of the MHV amplitude, the so-called half-soft function, satisfies a different, Berends-Giele-type recursion relation. We show that all these facts are illustrations to a more general story. We consider a weighted Laplacian for a complete graph of n vertices. The matrix tree theorem states that its diagonal minor determinants are all equal and given by a sum over spanning trees. We show that, for any choice of a cocycle on the graph, the minor determinants satisfy a Berends-Giele as well as Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten type recursion relation. Our proofs are purely combinatorial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0653

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zbMATH Keywords

integrable equations in physicsscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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• Pure connection formalism for gravity: recursion relations
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• Chiral perturbation theory for GR

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