Loop Amplitudes and Quantum Homotopy Algebras
arXiv:1912.06695 · doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2020)003
Abstract
We derive a recursion relation for loop-level scattering amplitudes of Lagrangian field theories that generalises the tree-level Berends-Giele recursion relation in Yang-Mills theory. The origin of this recursion relation is the homological perturbation lemma, which allows us to compute scattering amplitudes from minimal models of quantum homotopy algebras in a recursive way. As an application of our techniques, we give an alternative proof of the relation between non-planar and planar colour-stripped scattering amplitudes.
17 pages, slightly extended presentation, published version