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The duality between color and kinematics brings many simplifications to the construction of scattering amplitudes. Here, we show that satisfaction of the tree-level Bern-Carrasco-Johansson relations can dramatically simplify loop computations even when the loop-level relations are not explicitly satisfied. We introduce an agglomerative algorithm, color-dual cut tiling, that builds the entire integrand from the simplest on-shell conditions applied to a seed of off-shell integrand information. Specifically, we demonstrate that for two-to-two scattering at three loops in the maximally supersymmetric gauge theory there is sufficient information contained in planar cuts-completely determined by positivity constraints-to generate all of the nonplanar sector. We further make use of the generalized double copy to generate a representation of maximally supersymmetric gravity as a functional of the planar SYM input. We close with comments on generalizations and possible applications of the approach.
Authors
- Alex Edison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5430-9500)
- John Joseph M. Carrasco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4499-8488)
- Suna Zekioğlu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5019-7310)
- Nia Robles Del Pino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6708-0099)
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-02-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.071603
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Northwestern University
- Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University