Color/kinematics duality in AdS4

Armstrong, Connor; Lipstein, Arthur E.; Mei, Jiajie

Abstract

In flat space, the color/kinematics duality states that perturbative Yang-Mills amplitudes can be written in such a way that kinematic numerators obey the same Jacobi relations as their color factors. This remarkable duality implies BCJ relations for Yang-Mills amplitudes and underlies the double copy to gravitational amplitudes. In this paper, we find analogous relations for Yang-Mills amplitudes in AdS4. In particular we show that the kinematic numerators of 4-point Yang-Mills amplitudes computed via Witten diagrams in momentum space enjoy a generalised gauge symmetry which can be used to enforce the kinematic Jacobi relation away from the flat space limit, and we derive deformed BCJ relations which reduce to the standard ones in the flat space limit. We illustrate these results using compact new expressions for 4-point Yang-Mills amplitudes in AdS4 and their kinematic numerators in terms of spinors. We also spell out the relation to 3d conformal correlators in momentum space, and speculate on the double copy to graviton amplitudes in AdS4.

Citation

Armstrong, C., Lipstein, A. E., & Mei, J. (2021). Color/kinematics duality in AdS4. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(2), Article 194. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02%282021%29194

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 18, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Feb 23, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Feb 26, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 1, 2021
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2021
• Issue: 2
• Article Number: 194
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02%282021%29194