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Scattering of Massless Particles in Arbitrary Dimensions

Freddy Cachazo, Song He, and Ellis Ye Yuan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171601 – Published 20 October 2014
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Abstract

We present a compact formula for the complete tree-level S-matrix of pure Yang-Mills and gravity theories in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. The new formula for the scattering of n particles is given by an integral over the positions of n points on a sphere restricted to satisfy a dimension-independent set of equations. The integrand is constructed using the reduced Pfaffian of a 2n×2n matrix, Ψ, that depends on momenta and polarization vectors. In its simplest form, the gravity integrand is a reduced determinant which is the square of the Pfaffian in the Yang-Mills integrand. Gauge invariance is completely manifest as it follows from a simple property of the Pfaffian.

  • Received 28 July 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.171601

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Freddy Cachazo1,*, Song He1,2,†, and Ellis Ye Yuan1,3,‡

  • 1Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada
  • 2School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
  • 3Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada

  • *fcachazo@perimeterinstitute.ca
  • she@perimeterinstitute.ca
  • yyuan@perimeterinstitute.ca

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Vol. 113, Iss. 17 — 24 October 2014

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