Pure connection formalism for gravity: recursion relations

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2015)120MaRDI QIDQ1755055zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gianluca Delfino, Carlos Scarinci, Kirill Krasnov

Publication date 31 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5647

zbMATH Keywords

models of quantum gravityscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: In the gauge-theoretic formulation of gravity the cubic vertex becomes simple enough for some graviton scattering amplitudes to be computed using Berends-Giele-type recursion relations. We present such a computation for the current with all same helicity on-shell gravitons. Once the recursion relation is set up and low graviton number cases are worked out, a natural guess for the solution in terms of a sum over trees presents itself readily. The solution can also be described either in terms of the half-soft function familiar from the 1998 paper by Bern, Dixon, Perelstein and Rozowsky or as a matrix determinant similar to one used by Hodges for MHV graviton amplitudes. This solution also immediate suggests the correct guess for the MHV graviton amplitude formula, as is contained in the already mentioned 1998 paper. We also obtain the recursion relation for the off-shell current with all but one same helicity gravitons.

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