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Main Authors: Guevara, Alfredo, Lupsasca, Alexandru, Skinner, David, Strominger, Andrew, Weil, Kevin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12176
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author Guevara, Alfredo
Lupsasca, Alexandru
Skinner, David
Strominger, Andrew
Weil, Kevin
author_facet Guevara, Alfredo
Lupsasca, Alexandru
Skinner, David
Strominger, Andrew
Weil, Kevin
contents Single-minus tree-level $n$-gluon scattering amplitudes are reconsidered. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configurations existing in Klein space or for complexified momenta. We derive a piecewise-constant closed-form expression for the decay of a single minus-helicity gluon into $n-1$ plus-helicity gluons as a function of their momenta. This formula nontrivially satisfies multiple consistency conditions including Weinberg's soft theorem.
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spellingShingle Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero
Guevara, Alfredo
Lupsasca, Alexandru
Skinner, David
Strominger, Andrew
Weil, Kevin
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Single-minus tree-level $n$-gluon scattering amplitudes are reconsidered. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configurations existing in Klein space or for complexified momenta. We derive a piecewise-constant closed-form expression for the decay of a single minus-helicity gluon into $n-1$ plus-helicity gluons as a function of their momenta. This formula nontrivially satisfies multiple consistency conditions including Weinberg's soft theorem.
title Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12176