Color-Kinematics Relation from the Feynman Diagram Perspective

Abstract

Feynman diagrams for gluon tree amplitudes are studied in the Feynman gauge and in any number of spacetime dimensions. The color-kinematics combinations $\Delta =n_s-n_t-n_u$ of numerators are explicitly calculated for $N=4,5,6$ gluons to see whether the color-kinematics relation $\Delta =0$ is satisfied. This is a tedious task because of the presence of four-gluon vertices, and the large number of Feynman diagrams, numerators, and $\Delta$ combinations involved, especially when $N=6$. For on-shell amplitudes, it is found that $\Delta =0$ for $N=4$, but $\Delta \ne 0$ for $N=5$ and $N=6$ owing to the presence of the four-gluon vertex. However, a {\it local} generalized gauge transformation can bring about $\Delta =0$ for $N=5$, but not for $N=6$. This raises the question whether gluon amplitudes satisfying the color-kinematics relation contain non-local interactions.

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