The Twelve-Graviton Next-to-MHV Amplitude from Risager's Construction

Abstract

The MHV or CSW expansion of tree-level Yang-Mills amplitudes provides an elegant and simple way of obtaining analytic formulas for S-matrix elements. Inspired by the BCFW technique, a systematic approach to obtain the MHV expansion was introduced by Risager, using a particular complex deformation. Although it works for Yang-Mills amplitudes, Risager's technique fails to provide an MHV expansion already for Next-to-MHV gravity amplitudes with more than eleven particles, as shown by Bianchi, Elvang and Freedman in 2008. This fact implies that in this sector there is a contribution at infinity starting at n = 12. In this note we determine the explicit analytic form of this residue at infinity for n = 12. Together with the terms of the Risager MHV expansion, the residue at infinity completes the first full CSW-like analytic expression of the twelve-graviton NMHV amplitude. Our technique can also be used to compute the residue at infinity for higher points.

12 pages, 2 figures, published version in JHEP; formerly titled "The Anomaly of the Twelve-Graviton Next-to-MHV Risager Amplitude"

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