MHV-Vertices for Gravity Amplitudes

Abstract

We obtain a CSW-style formalism for calculating graviton scattering amplitudes and prove its validity through the use of a special type of BCFW-like parameter shift. The procedure is illustrated with explicit examples.

21 pages, minor typos corrected, proof added in section 4

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