Britto Ruth, Cachazo Freddy, Feng Bo, Witten Edward
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2005 May 13;94(18):181602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181602. Epub 2005 May 10.
Recently, by using the known structure of one-loop scattering amplitudes for gluons in Yang-Mills theory, a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes has been deduced. Here, we give a short and direct proof of this recursion relation based on properties of tree-level amplitudes only.