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On-shell diagrams for N = 8 supergravity amplitudes

Heslop, Paul; Lipstein, Arthur E.

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We define recursion relations for N = 8 supergravity amplitudes using a generalization of the on-shell diagrams developed for planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills. Although the recursion relations generically give rise to non-planar on-shell diagrams, we show that at tree-level the recursion can be chosen to yield only planar diagrams, the same diagrams occurring in the planar N = 4 theory. This implies non-trivial identities for non-planar diagrams as well as interesting relations between the N = 4 and N = 8 theories. We show that the on-shell diagrams of N = 8 supergravity obey equivalence relations analogous to those of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills, and we develop a systematic algorithm for reading off Grassmannian integral formulae directly from the on-shell diagrams. We also show that the 1-loop 4-point amplitude of N = 8 supergravity can be obtained from on-shell diagrams.

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Heslop, P., & Lipstein, A. E. (2016). On-shell diagrams for N = 8 supergravity amplitudes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(06), Article 069. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282016%29069

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 7, 2016
Online Publication Date Jun 10, 2016
Publication Date Jun 10, 2016
Deposit Date Jun 14, 2016
Publicly Available Date Jun 14, 2016
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN 1126-6708
Publisher Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2016
Issue 06
Article Number 069
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282016%29069
Related Public URLs http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03046

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