Multi-trace YMS amplitudes from soft behavior

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Main Authors: Du, Yi-Jian, Zhou, Kang
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author Du, Yi-Jian
Zhou, Kang
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Zhou, Kang
contents Tree level multi-trace Yang-Mills-scalar (YMS) amplitudes have been shown to satisfy a recursive expansion formula, which expresses any YMS amplitude by those with fewer gluons and/or scalar traces. In an earlier work, the single-trace expansion formula has been shown to be determined by the universality of soft behavior. This approach is nevertheless not extended to multi-trace case in a straightforward way. In this paper, we derive the expansion formula of tree-level multi-trace YMS amplitudes in a bottom-up way: we first determine the simplest amplitude, the double-trace pure scalar amplitude which involves two scalars in each trace. Then insert more scalars to one of the traces. Based on this amplitude, we further obtain the double-soft behavior when the trace containing only two scalars is soft. The multi-trace amplitudes with more scalars and more gluons finally follow from the double-soft behavior as well as the single-soft behaviors which has been derived before.
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spellingShingle Multi-trace YMS amplitudes from soft behavior
Du, Yi-Jian
Zhou, Kang
High Energy Physics - Theory
Tree level multi-trace Yang-Mills-scalar (YMS) amplitudes have been shown to satisfy a recursive expansion formula, which expresses any YMS amplitude by those with fewer gluons and/or scalar traces. In an earlier work, the single-trace expansion formula has been shown to be determined by the universality of soft behavior. This approach is nevertheless not extended to multi-trace case in a straightforward way. In this paper, we derive the expansion formula of tree-level multi-trace YMS amplitudes in a bottom-up way: we first determine the simplest amplitude, the double-trace pure scalar amplitude which involves two scalars in each trace. Then insert more scalars to one of the traces. Based on this amplitude, we further obtain the double-soft behavior when the trace containing only two scalars is soft. The multi-trace amplitudes with more scalars and more gluons finally follow from the double-soft behavior as well as the single-soft behaviors which has been derived before.
title Multi-trace YMS amplitudes from soft behavior
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03879