We perform a canonical transformation of fields that brings the Yang-Mills action in the light-cone gauge to a new classical action, which does not involve any triple-gluon vertices. The lowest order vertex is the four-point MHV vertex. Higher point vertices include the MHV and $$ \overline{\mathrm{MHV}} $$
MHV
¯
vertices, that reduce to the corresponding amplitudes in the on-shell limit. In general, any n-leg vertex has 2 ≤ m ≤ n − 2 negative helicity legs. The canonical transformation of fields can be compactly expressed in terms of path-ordered exponentials of fields and their functional derivative. We apply the new action to compute several tree-level amplitudes, up to 8-point NNMHV amplitude, and find agreement with the standard methods. The absence of triple-gluon vertices results in fewer diagrams required to compute amplitudes, when compared to the CSW method and, obviously, considerably fewer than in the standard Yang-Mills action.
We develop a new classical action that in addition to
\mathrm{MHV}MHV
vertices contains also \mathrm{N^kMHV}NkMHV
vertices, where 1\leq k \leq n-41≤k≤n−4
with nn
the number of external legs. The lowest order vertex is the four-point
MHV vertex – there is no three point vertex and thus the amplitude
calculation involves fewer vertices than in the CSW method. The action
is obtained by a canonical transformation of the Yang-Mills action in
the light-cone gauge, where the field transformations are based on
Wilson line functionals.
It is well known that the MHV action, i.e. the action containing all the maximally helicity violating vertices, is alone not sufficient for loop computations. In order to develop loop contributions systematically and to ensure that there are no missing terms, we propose to formulate the quantum MHV action via one-loop effective action approach. The quadratic field fluctuations in the light cone Yang-Mills theory are explicitly integrated, followed by the classical canonical field transformation. We test the approach by calculating one loop (++++) and (+++) amplitudes, i.e. amplitudes that cannot be calculated from ordinary MHV action. Such an approach can be further used to unambiguously define loop corrections in other theories related to Yang-Mills theory by field transformations.
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