Loop Integrands for Scattering Amplitudes from the Riemann Sphere
Abstract
The scattering equations on the Riemann sphere give rise to remarkable formulas for tree-level gauge theory and gravity amplitudes. Adamo, Casali, and Skinner conjectured a one-loop formula for supergravity amplitudes based on scattering equations on a torus. We use a residue theorem to transform this into a formula on the Riemann sphere. What emerges is a framework for loop integrands on the Riemann sphere that promises to have a wide application, based on off-shell scattering equations that depend on the loop momentum. We present new formulas, checked explicitly at low points, for supergravity and super-Yang-Mills amplitudes and for n -gon integrands at one loop. Finally, we show that the off-shell scattering equations naturally extend to arbitrary loop order, and we give a proposal for the all-loop integrands for supergravity and planar super-Yang-Mills theory.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 2015
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1507.00321
- Bibcode:
- 2015PhRvL.115l1603G
- Keywords:
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- 11.15.Bt;
- 11.25.Db;
- 11.55.Bq;
- 11.55.Ds;
- General properties of perturbation theory;
- Properties of perturbation theory;
- Analytic properties of S matrix;
- Exact S matrices;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 1 figure. v3: published version