{ "id": "hep-th/0501052", "version": "v2", "published": "2005-01-07T20:04:03.000Z", "updated": "2005-02-08T22:57:38.000Z", "title": "Direct Proof Of Tree-Level Recursion Relation In Yang-Mills Theory", "authors": [ "Ruth Britto", "Freddy Cachazo", "Bo Feng", "Edward Witten" ], "comment": "10 pp. Added section 4: Proof of MHV Recursion Relations", "journal": "Phys.Rev.Lett.94:181602,2005", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181602", "categories": [ "hep-th" ], "abstract": "Recently, by using the known structure of one-loop scattering amplitudes for gluons in Yang-Mills theory, a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes has been deduced. Here, we give a short and direct proof of this recursion relation based on properties of tree-level amplitudes only.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2005-02-08T22:57:38.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11.15.Bt", "11.55.Bq" ], "themes": [ { "category": "hep-th", "topics": [ "scattering amplitudes", "gauge theory", "Yang-Mills theory" ] } ], "keywords": [ "scattering amplitudes", "recursion relations", "MHV diagrams", "Yang-Mills theory" ], "tags": [ "journal article", "famous paper" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett.", "year": 2005, "month": "May", "volume": 94, "number": 18, "pages": 181602, "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181602", "url": "http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181602" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 674518 } } }