Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-11-15
Nucl.Phys.B546:423-479,1999
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Minor errors corrected, Latex, 53 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00029-2
By exploiting relations between gravity and gauge theories, we present two infinite sequences of one-loop n-graviton scattering amplitudes: the `maximally helicity-violating' amplitudes in N=8 supergravity, and the `all-plus' helicity amplitudes in gravity with any minimally coupled massless matter content. The all-plus amplitudes correspond to self-dual field configurations and vanish in supersymmetric theories. We make use of the tree-level Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) relations between open and closed string theory amplitudes, which in the low-energy limit imply relations between gravity and gauge theory tree amplitudes. For n < 7, we determine the all-plus amplitudes explicitly from their unitarity cuts. The KLT relations, applied to the cuts, allow us to extend to gravity a previously found `dimension-shifting' relation between (the cuts of) the all-plus amplitudes in gauge theory and the maximally helicity-violating amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. The gravitational version of the relation lets us determine the n < 7 N=8 supergravity amplitudes from the all-plus gravity amplitudes. We infer the two series of amplitudes for all n from their soft and collinear properties, which can also be derived from gauge theory using the KLT relations.
Bern Zvi
Dixon Lance
Perelstein Maxim
Rozowsky Joel S.
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