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hep-th2026

NLSM amplitudes from a quartic two-derivative theory

Qu Cao, Zhenqi Han, Fan Zhu

The paper presents a local scalar Lagrangian with a single quartic two-derivative interaction that exactly reproduces planar nonlinear sigma model (NLSM) amplitudes at all loop ord…

hep-th2026

Uniqueness and Analytic Structures of Bosonic String Effective Amplitudes

Qu Cao, Fan Zhu

We revisit the zero-transcendentality sector of bosonic string effective amplitudes with spin-1 external states, conjectured to correspond to a mass-deformed theory, known…

hep-th2025

Superstring amplitudes meet surfaceology

Qu Cao, Jin Dong, Song He +1

We reformulate tree-level amplitudes in open superstring theory (type-I) in terms of stringy Tr amplitudes with various kinematical shifts in the "curve-integral" formulati…

hep-th2025

Loop-Level Double Copy Relations from Forward Limits

Qu Cao, Song He, Yong Zhang +1

We study double copy relations for loop integrands in gauge theories and gravity based on their constructions from single cuts, which are in turn obtained from forward limits of lo…

hep-th2025

All-loop planar integrands in Yang-Mills theory from recursion

Qu Cao, Fan Zhu

In this letter, we generalize the recursion methods based on cut equations arXiv:2412.21027, originally developed for scalar theories, to gluons in pure Yang-Mills theory. In gauge…

hep-th2025

On universal splittings of tree-level particle and string scattering amplitudes

Qu Cao, Jin Dong, Song He +2

In this paper, we study the newly discovered universal splitting behavior for tree-level scattering amplitudes of particles and strings~\cite{Cao:2024gln}: when a set of Mandelstam…