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Single-minus graviton tree amplitudes are nonzero
Alfredo Guevara · 2026 · arxiv
10.48550/arxiv.2603.04330Find this paper
Abstract
Single-minus tree-level $n$-graviton scattering amplitudes are revisited. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configurations existing in Klein space or for complexified momenta. A Berends-Giele recursion relation for these amplitudes is derived and solved in a form involving a sum over trees. In a restricted kinematic decay region, this solution simplifies significantly to an $(n{-}2)$-fold product of soft factors. It is further shown in this region that, combined with suitable analyticity assumptions, the $n$-graviton amplitude is generated by a recursive $\mathcal{L}w_{1+\infty}$ Ward identity with the three-graviton amplitude as a seed.
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