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Kinematic Hopf Algebra for Bern-Carrasco-Johansson Numerators in Heavy-Mass Effective Field Theory and Yang-Mills Theory
Queen Mary Univ London, Ctr Theoret Phys, Dept Phys & Astron, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England.
Queen Mary Univ London, Ctr Theoret Phys, Dept Phys & Astron, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England.
Nordita SU; Uppsala Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5236-0954
Queen Mary Univ London, Ctr Theoret Phys, Dept Phys & Astron, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England.
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2022 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 128, no 12, article id 121601Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We present a closed formula for all Bern-Carrasco-Johansson (BCJ) numerators describing D-dimensional tree-level scattering amplitudes in a heavy-mass effective field theory with two massive particles and an arbitrary number of gluons. The corresponding gravitational amplitudes obtained via the double copy directly enter the computation of black-hole scattering and gravitational-wave emission. Our construction is based on finding a kinematic algebra for the numerators, which we relate to a quasishuffle Hopf algebra. The BCJ numerators thus obtained have a compact form and intriguing features: gauge invariance is manifest, locality is respected for massless exchange, and they contain poles corresponding to massive exchange. Counting the number of terms in a BCJ numerator for n - 2 gluons gives the Fubini numbers Fn-3, reflecting the underlying quasishuffle Hopf algebra structure. Finally, by considering an appropriate factorization limit, the massive particles decouple, and we thus obtain a kinematic algebra and all tree-level BCJ numerators for D-dimensional pure Yang-Mills theory.

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American Physical Society (APS) , 2022. Vol. 128, no 12, article id 121601
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-312214DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.121601ISI: 000787858100006PubMedID: 35394313Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85127571986OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-312214DiVA, id: diva2:1658292
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