On-Shell Recursion Relations for Effective Field Theories

Phys Rev Lett. 2016 Jan 29;116(4):041601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.041601. Epub 2016 Jan 25.

Abstract

We derive the first ever on-shell recursion relations applicable to effective field theories. Based solely on factorization and the soft behavior of amplitudes, these recursion relations employ a new rescaling momentum shift to construct all tree-level scattering amplitudes in the nonlinear sigma model, Dirac-Born-Infeld theory, and the Galileon. Our results prove that all theories with enhanced soft behavior are on-shell constructible.