Abstract
In this Letter, we present a recursive method for computing one-loop off-shell integrands in colored quantum field theories. First, we generalize the perturbiner method by recasting the multiparticle currents as generators of off-shell tree-level amplitudes. After, by taking advantage of the underlying color structure, we define a consistent sewing procedure to iteratively compute the one-loop integrands. When gauge symmetries are involved, the whole procedure is extended to multiparticle solutions involving ghosts, which can then be accounted for in the full loop computation. Since the required input here is equations of motion and gauge symmetry, our framework naturally extends to one-loop computations in certain non-Lagrangian field theories.
- Received 15 August 2022
- Revised 14 October 2022
- Accepted 17 January 2023
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.081601
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