
Scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory can be represented in the formalism of Cachazo, He and Yuan (CHY) as integrals over an auxiliary projective space---fully localized on the support of the scattering equations. Because solving the scattering equations is difficult and summing over the solutions algebraically complex, a method of directly integrating the terms that appear in this representation has long been sought. We solve this important open problem by first rewriting the terms in a manifestly Mobius-invariant form and then using monodromy relations (inspired by analogy to string theory) to decompose terms into those for which combinatorial rules of integration are known. The result is a systematic procedure to obtain analytic, covariant forms of Yang-Mills tree-amplitudes for any number of external legs and in any number of dimensions. As examples, we provide compact analytic expressions for amplitudes involving up to six gluons of arbitrary helicities.
29 pages, 43 figures; also included is a Mathematica notebook with explicit formulae. v2: citations added, and several (important) typos fixed
High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), \(2\)-body potential quantum scattering theory, Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.), FOS: Physical sciences, Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems, String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory, Feynman diagrams, Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), \(2\)-body potential quantum scattering theory, Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.), FOS: Physical sciences, Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems, String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory, Feynman diagrams, Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
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