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Off-shell amplitudes and Grassmannians

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The Grassmannian representation for gauge-invariant amplitudes for arbitrary number of legs with one of them being off-shell is derived for the case of N = 4 SYM. The obtained formula are successfully checked against known BCFW results for MHV n , NMHV4 and NMHV5 amplitudes.

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  1. CFAR VNIIA, ITEP, Moscow, Russia

    L. V. Bork

  2. BLTP JINR, MIPT, SINP MSU, Moscow, Russia

    A. I. Onishchenko

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Bork, L.V., Onishchenko, A.I. Off-shell amplitudes and Grassmannians. Phys. Part. Nuclei 48, 810–812 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779617050082

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