Sunday, March 22, 2015

quantum field theory - MVH amplitudes and the unitarity method


In the last 5 years there has been a silent revolution in QFT called the unitarity method and the Maximum Violating Helicity (MVH) Amplitudes that basically consist an alternative way to obtain the same amplitudes that you would obtain by the Lagrangian formalisms and the Feynmann diagrams without breaking the bank in supercluster computing time.


Now, there is little known about why/how this method works in the theoretical aspect. Are there interesting things that might result from this in the theoretical domain, or it just happens to be an extremely convenient calculation tool? What are the main insights that the existence of these identities give us?


If you feel that a summary of the state of the art is all that can be offered for now, feel free to give that as an answer.




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