The Supersymmetry of Cuts in Pure Gauge Theory and Gravity

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Main Author: Bourjaily, Jacob L.
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Published: 2025
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contents At tree-level, scattering amplitudes involving only gluons or gravitons are unaffected by supersymmetry, allowing them to be efficiently encoded by and extracted from those of maximally supersymmetric (N=4,8) theories. This fails beyond tree-level, of course, but much less than would be expected. We show that all the leading singularities of (sub-maximally or) non-supersymmetric theories can be organized into `generalized' superfunctions, in terms of which all helicity components can be effectively encoded. These functions differ from those of maximally supersymmetric theories by an extent determined by loop-order -- broken into a sum over 2^L supersymmetric pieces.
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spellingShingle The Supersymmetry of Cuts in Pure Gauge Theory and Gravity
Bourjaily, Jacob L.
High Energy Physics - Theory
At tree-level, scattering amplitudes involving only gluons or gravitons are unaffected by supersymmetry, allowing them to be efficiently encoded by and extracted from those of maximally supersymmetric (N=4,8) theories. This fails beyond tree-level, of course, but much less than would be expected. We show that all the leading singularities of (sub-maximally or) non-supersymmetric theories can be organized into `generalized' superfunctions, in terms of which all helicity components can be effectively encoded. These functions differ from those of maximally supersymmetric theories by an extent determined by loop-order -- broken into a sum over 2^L supersymmetric pieces.
title The Supersymmetry of Cuts in Pure Gauge Theory and Gravity
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24984