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On-shell recursion relations for gravity

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 (United States)
We extend the argument presented by Benincasa, Boucher-Veronneau, and Cachazo to show that graviton tree amplitudes are well behaved under large complex deformations of the momenta of a pair of like-helicity gravitons. This shows that Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten recursion relations for gravity amplitudes can be constructed using such shifts, providing an alternative proof to the recent one by Arkani-Hamed and Kaplan. By using auxiliary recursion relations the cancellations which are hidden when using covariant Feynman diagrams become manifest.
OSTI ID:
21212020
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 77; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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