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We find new relations for the non-universal part of the Yang-Mills amplitudes by combining the KLT-relation and the soft behavior of gauge and gravity amplitudes. We also extend the relations to include contributions from effective operators.
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Aoude, R., Helset, A. Soft theorems and the KLT-relation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 44 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2020)044
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