Cross-ratio identities and higher-order poles of CHY-integrand

The evaluation of generic Cachazo-He-Yuan(CHY)-integrands is a big challenge and efficient computational methods are in demand for practical evaluation. In this paper, we propose a systematic decomposition algorithm by using cross-ratio identities, which provides an analytic and easy to implement method for the evaluation of any CHY-integrand. This algorithm aims to decompose a given CHY-integrand containing higher-order poles as a linear combination of CHY-integrands with only simple poles in a finite number of steps, which ultimately can be trivially evaluated by integration rules of simple poles. To make the method even more efficient for CHY-integrands with large number of particles and complicated higher-order pole structures, we combine the Λ-algorithm and the cross-ratio identities, and as a by-product it provides us a way to deal with CHY-integrands where the Λ-algorithm was not applicable in its original formulation.


Introduction
The n-particle scattering amplitude in arbitrary dimension can be described by Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY) formulation [1][2][3][4][5] as exists, with its geometric structure investigated in [7], makes the evaluation of (1.2) wellsuited in the algebraic geometry context. The Möbius invariance implies that among the n distinct punctured points z a , a = 1, 2, . . . , n in Riemann sphere, any three of them, say z a , a ∈ {r, s, t} , can be fixed to particular locations, conventionally chosen as z r = ∞, z s = 1, z t = 0, such that the n-dimensional integration module the volume of SL(2, C) in (1.1) can be written as the one in the first parenthesis of (1.2), which is a (n − 3)-dimensional integration. The Möbius invariance also implies that only (n − 3) scattering equations are linearly independent, and it forces us to write the δ(E a ) in (1.1) as the one in the second parenthesis of (1.2), to ensure that δ(E a ) is independent of removing any three scattering equations E a , a ∈ {i, j, k}, leaving only (n − 3) linearly independent delta functions. Hence formula (1.2) is in fact a (n − 3)-dimensional integration constrained by (n − 3) delta functions, allowing a representation (1.5) coming from the evaluation of (n − 3) delta functions. The so called CHY-integrand I(z) is a rational function of z ij ≡ z i − z j , external momenta k i 's as well as the polarization vectors i 's, whose explicit definition varies with the field theories under consideration, while systematic and compact construction of I(z) exists for bi-adjacent cubic-scalar, pure Yang-Mills, Gravity theories, NLSM, DBI as well as mixing among them [3][4][5].
Although conceptually simple and elegant, it is in fact impossible to analytically evaluate (1.2) by (1.4), due to the well-known Abel-Ruffini theorem that there is no algebraic solution to the general polynomial equations of degree five or higher with arbitrary coefficients. There are a few studies on the solutions of scattering equations in four-dimension and at special kinematics [8][9][10][11], but not generic. Even in five-point case where analytic solution of scattering equations is available, the (5 − 3)! = 2 solutions are radical functions of Mandelstam variables. Only after summing over two solutions we get rational functions as the final simple result. This infers that there must be better evaluation techniques, and it motives various approaches towards the evaluation of (1.2) avoiding the explicit solutions of scattering equations, based on algebraic geometry techniques. In [12], a method is proposed and applied to analytically evaluating all five-point amplitudes, by the well-known Vieta formulae that relates the sum of solutions of a polynomial equations to the coefficient of polynomials. The elimination theory elaborated therein for rewriting multivariate polynomials as an univariate polynomial is further developed in [13][14][15], to deal with more generic n-particle scattering system. In [16], companion matrix method is introduced, which rephrases the computation of summing over (n − 3)! solutions as computing the trace of certain (n − 3)! × (n − 3)! matrix, and provides an intuitive interpretation that the final analytic result is indeed rational functions. This is later proven to be equivalent to the elimination method [13,15]. In [17], Bezoutian matrix method is introduced to evaluate JHEP09(2016)133 the total sum of residues of (1.2) algebraically, without working out individual residues (or solutions of scattering equations). In [18,19], polynomial reduction techniques are investigated based on the polynomial form [6] of scattering equation. All above algebraic geometry based methods are in principle generalizable to the evaluation of any n-particle scattering, however the elimination algorithm as well as the polynomial reduction rewrite the polynomials in a form such that the coefficients are rather involved. Furthermore, a complete computation also depends on the explicit expression of Jacobian (1.5) which could be very complicated for large n. These make the analytic computation in practical difficult even for lower-point amplitude. A resulting trouble is that the amplitude computed by these methods is not in the form with manifest physical poles, and simplification of the result takes quite a long time. For example, using the companion matrix method [16], it would be possible to spend hours to produce a six-point amplitude of scalar theory.
In the demand of computational efficiency, many other methods come to rescue. In [20], graph theory knowledge is introduced in the contour integration of (1.2), to expand a generic CHY-integrand into basis of known simple CHY-integrands, named after building blocks. This idea is further developed in [21], resulting into the so called Λ-algorithm, to recursively cut a generic CHY-integrand into lower-point sub-CHY-integrands until to certain basic building blocks. Although this method is able to deal with off-shell configurations, which have allowed to generalize it to loop-level recently in [22], and despite it can compute CHY-integrands of higher-order poles, it still has some limitations. The cutting procedure for CHY-integrands is general, but when the so called singular configurations appear in sub-CHY-integrands, evaluation becomes difficult. However for many CHYintegrands, the singular configuration is un-avoidable. Another approach is inspired by the string amplitude computation, where combinatorial rules for integration (integration rules) of (1.2) is derived [23,24]. In [25,26], auxiliary Feynman-like diagrams are introduced to compute the global residue, quite similar to that of [23,24,27], while in [28], Berends-Giele recursion relations are applied to the computation of CHY-integrands which are products of two Parke-Taylor type factors that containing only simple poles. On the other hand, the integration rule is a rather simple and efficient technique. In fact, the actual computation can be carried out without any information of the solutions of scattering equations as well as the detailed expression of Jacobian in CHY-formulation, but only the information of CHY-integrand as a rational function of z ij . However, it suffers from a disadvantage that only CHY-integrand with simple poles can be perfectly evaluated, while a generic CHYintegrand from Yang-Mills or gravity theories could have many higher-order poles. There are two intuitive ways of bypassing this disadvantage. The first is to create rules for higherorder poles, which is investigated in [29], but yet a complete set of rules for any types of higher-order poles are required therein before it could be a complete method. The other is to decompose a CHY-integrand of higher-order poles into several CHY-integrands of simple poles by non-trivial identities relating different rational terms of z ij . The idea of decomposition is already discussed in [23], where Pfaffian identities are introduced to take on the task. But the power of Pfaffian identities is limited to certain examples with lower-point JHEP09(2016)133 scattering, and no systematic implementation can be elaborated with them. 1 In a recent paper [30], identities originated from monodromy relations are proposed to systematically decompose a CHY-integrand of higher-order poles into those of simple poles.
In this paper, we propose another kind of identities, namely the cross-ratio identities, to overcome the difficulties towards a systematic and complete evaluation of (1.2) in practice. These identities are applied in two levels. For a CHY-integrand with reasonable number of scattering particles and not so complicated higher-order pole structures, 2 the cross-ratio identities can be applied directly to decompose a CHY-integrand into terms with only simple poles. While in the situation that a naive decomposition of a CHY-integrand would result in far too much terms that slow the computation, the Λ-algorithm developed in [21] would then be introduced to split a CHY-integrand into products of several lower-point CHY-integrands which can not be computed by Λ-algorithm, followed by the application of cross-ratio identities to reformulate the lower-point ones as those that can be computed by integration rules of simple poles or Λ-algorithm.
This paper is structured as follows. In section 2, we present the construction of crossratio identities and its generic formulation for an arbitrary pole 1/s, and demonstrate the decomposition of CHY-integrands of higher-order poles by cross-ratio identities with two examples. in section 3, we propose a systematic algorithm aims to completely decompose any CHY-integrand of higher-order poles within finite steps by cross-ratio identities, and illustrate the algorithm by a highly non-trivial eight-point example. In section 4, we illustrate how the Λ-algorithm and decomposition algorithm with cross-ratio identities can work together to make an even more efficient computational method. Recurrence relations for a particular type of CHY-integrands are presented as an example to show that for many complicated CHY-integrands with large n, iterative cutting procedure can be applied to rewrite them as lower-point sub-CHY-integrands which are easy to compute. Section 5 comes the conclusion, while in appendix A, a practical algorithm is proposed for a complete implementation of integration rules of simple poles. In appendix B, comparison is provided between the identities from monodromy relations [30] and cross-ratio identities, while in appendix C, D, quantities needed for the recurrence relations by Λ-algorithm are provided. Very brief introduction on integration rules of simple poles can be found in section 3 and appendix A, but we suggest [29] for more detailed explanation. For detailed description of Λ-algorithm please refer to [21,22].

The cross-ratio identities
Following the decomposition idea, the primary problem is to find a better identity rather than Pfaffian identities, which can be applied to CHY-integrands with any pole structures.

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by one. This is the key point of our algorithm. The second is about the p index. It could be any one in {1, 2, . . . , n} except i, j, k, l. Otherwise for instance p = k, there would always be a factor z jp ≡ z jk in the denominator of (2.17), such that the number of lines connecting nodes {i, j, k, l} will increase by one. So the order of poles will not be reduced. The third is about the j index. In the derivation, we have chosen to fix the index j and consider three fundamental cross-ratio identities for poles s ij , s kj , s lj . Such choice breaks the symmetry among indices {i, j, k, l}, leaving only S 3 permutation symmetry on {i, k, l} manifest. Similarly, the choice of p also breaks the symmetry among remaining indices. As a consequence, different choice of j, p leads to different cross-ratio identity for the same pole s ijkl , and during computation we can choose an appropriate one to simplify the decomposition.
The construction of cross-ratio identity for generic pole 1 s A follows exactly the same derivation. Let A be a subset of {1, 2, . . . , n}, and assume A to be its complement. Because of momentum conservation, s A = s A . Then the cross-ratio identity for pole s A with selected index j ∈ A and p ∈ A is where A \ {j} denotes the set A extracting the element j. In the notation I n [A, j, p], A is the subset associated to the pole s A of identity, and j, p are explicitly written down to emphasize the special choice. We remark again that, the cross-ratio identity is invariant under permutation on A \ {j} as well as permutation on A \ {p}, so there are in total k(n − k) different identities for the pole s A if A is a length-k subset.
With the general construction of cross-ratio identities, we can now implement an algorithm for the decomposition of any CHY-integrands with higher-order poles. In the next section, we will present a systematic decomposition algorithm, but now let us follow two examples to explore some details during the decomposition. where N (s ij ) is some polynomial function of s ij which is irrelevant for the purpose of the current example. So in order to perform the decomposition, we need to multiply it with a cross-ratio identity of the pole 1 s 12 , an identity of the pole 1 s 34 and an identity of the pole 1 s 56 . Since for each s ij , there are 2(6 − 2) = 8 cross-ratio identities, so naively we have 8 3 = 512 possibilities of multiplying three identities. However, not all of them can successfully decompose I two terms for a new higher-order pole, such that after summing over these terms the new higher-order pole is still canceled.). Of course, the best expectation is that we can find at least one multiplication such that the original CHY-integrand can be decomposed into terms with only simple poles. Fortunately in this example, if taking the following three fundamental cross-ratio identities where N (s ij ) is another polynomial function of s ij . So we need to multiply it with four fundamental cross-ratio identities, two of the pole 1 s 12 (counting multiplicity), one of the pole 1 s 34 and one of the pole 1 s 56 . Since each identity contains 3 terms, after multiplying four identities the original CHY-integrand would be decomposed into 3 4 = 81 terms.  , and find none of them can decompose CHY-integrand (2.23) into 81 terms with only simple poles. The best situation is that, 4 out of 81 terms are CHY-integrands with a double pole while the remaining 77 terms with simple poles. Such a multiplication can be constructed from the following four cross-ratio identities

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to the two terms in (2.27). Then the four terms with double poles can be further decomposed into terms with simple poles. Hence the CHY-integrand (2.23) is decomposed into 77 + 4 × 4 = 93 CHY-integrands of simple poles, and summing over these 93 terms indeed produces the correct answer.
The second example clearly shows that, for generic CHY-integrand of complicated higher-order poles, it is usually not possible to completely decompose it within one step. Even after trying all possible multiplication of cross-ratio identities, there would be some resulting CHY-integrands which need a second and even more steps on cross-ratio identity decomposition. Another thing is about the various cross-ratio identities for the same pole s A . To compensate the higher-order pole s A , different cross-ratio identities provide different decomposition. Some cross-ratio identities will reduce the degree of higher-order poles in each resulting terms while some will introduce other higher-order poles. These suggest us to implement a decomposition algorithm step by step, and a complete decomposition could be guaranteed only if there are appropriate cross-ratio identities to reduce, or at least not increase, the degree of higher-order poles in each step. Since there are pretty much cross-ratio identities for a pole s A , and also various possibilities of decomposition steps, it seems to give us enough information such as the decomposition procedure can always continue until we get a decomposition with CHY-integrands of simple poles.
With above preparations, we are ready to propose a systematic decomposition algorithm in the following section.

The algorithm
In order to decompose a CHY-integrand I(z ij ) of higher-order poles into terms with only simple poles by cross-ratio identities, we can start from an arbitrary higher-order pole s A and multiply an appropriate cross-ratio identity of pole s A to the original CHY-integrand. This leads to several CHY-integrands with the order of higher-order poles reduced. 3 For each resulting CHY-integrand, we again reduce the order of poles by multiplying an appropriate cross-ratio identity, and iteratively perform this procedure until all resulting terms contain simple poles. Here we present a systematic decomposition algorithm aims to decompose any CHY-integrand of higher-order poles into terms with only simple poles in finite steps.
Let us start from a generic n-point CHY-integrand I(z ij ), as a rational function of z ij , as In the 4-regular graph representation, the β ij is represented by lines connecting nodes z i , z j . A positive integer β ij is represented by the corresponding number of solid lines, a negative integer β ij (which stands for a non-trivial numerator) is represented by the corresponding

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number of dashed lines. In order to respect the Möbius invariance, for each node, the number of connected solid lines minus the number of connected dashed lines is four. For the length-n set {1, 2, . . . , n}, since a subset is considered to be equivalent to its complement due to momentum conservation, we have the following independent subsets A, • If n is even, so the pole index χ Aα for this subset is From the CHY-integrand (3.1), we can directly read out the pole index for every subset.
Each subset A α corresponds to a pole 1 sα . From the Pole Condition follows that, if χ Aα < 0, the pole will not present in the final result, while if χ Aα = 0, a simple pole 1 sα will present, and if χ Aα > 0, a pole of order 1 s χ+1 α will appear in the final result. Assuming that for a given CHY-integrand I, there are m independent subsets A α 1 , A α 2 , . . . , A αm with χ Aα i ≥ 0, we define the order of poles of the CHY-integrand as which can be readily computed from β ij by using (3.3). The Υ is the number of poles to be compensated by cross-ratio identities, i.e., in order to completely decompose a CHY-integrand, we need to multiply at least Υ cross-ratio identities. Υ[I] = 0 means the corresponding CHY-integrand I contains only simple poles. We will use it as a criteria in the decomposition algorithm. Before stating the algorithm, let us have a look at the cross-ratio identities. For a generic pole s i 1 i 2 ···i k , from definition (2.18) we know that there are k(n − k) identities Each identity gives a different decomposition of CHY-integrand with higher-order pole of s i 1 i 2 ···i k , and we need to choose an appropriate one in the algorithm. Now let us state the decomposition algorithm. For a generic CHY-integrand I, we JHEP09 (2016)133 2. Take the first A α 1 , and list all |A α 1 |(n − |A α 1 |) cross-ratio identities of s α 1 , 3. Decompose the CHY-integrand I with the first cross-ratio identity in step 2, After above procedure, we get I = c I . Then let each I go through the procedure recursively, until all resulting CHY-integrands contain only simple poles. If after some steps (larger than Υ[I]), the terms of higher-order poles in resulting CHY-integrands keep growing, then we shall restart the algorithm again, and choose A α 2 to start the decomposition, etc. The whole algorithm will end in finite steps, with the judgement that all Υ[I ] = 0. Above algorithm can be easily implemented in Mathematica.

An illustrative example
As a highly non-trivial example to illustrate the above mentioned algorithm, let us consider the CHY-integrand with its 4-regular graph shown in figure 5. It can be computed that

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It can be seen from the table that, after four rounds of decomposition, some resulting terms are already those of simple poles. After five rounds of decomposition, terms of higher-order poles start decreasing, until to the round 8 decomposition, where all terms of higher-order poles are reduced, leaving 9922 CHY-integrands of simple poles. Computing these 9922 terms via integration rules of simple poles takes a few minutes by Mathematica in a laptop, and the result is confirmed numerically.
This algorithm can be applied to higher-n scattering process without difficulty. The efficiency of decomposition mostly depends on the number of terms of higher-order poles in each round decomposition but not the number n of scattering points. If Υ of original CHYintegrand is not very large, the algorithm can be easily finished in a short time. However, if Υ is large (for instance Υ > 10), the decomposition can still proceed, but might take some time.

The Λ-algorithm and the cross-ratio identities
In the previous section, we apply the cross-ratio identities to the systematic decomposition of CHY-integrand with higher-order poles. For CHY-integrands with large n and Υ, the resulting terms of simple poles can easily reach a number of millions, hence slow the computation. For those CHY-integrands where decomposition algorithm is significantly slow, we can nevertheless combine the cross-ratio identities with Λ-algorithm, to pursue a more efficient realization. In this section, we will describe such a combination.
The Λ-algorithm has been recently developed by one of the authors to compute CHYintegrands. It has some interesting features as it can support up to three off-shell particles as well as it factorizes the original graph representing the CHY-integrand into sub-graphs with less number of vertices by means of an iterative algorithm. Nevertheless, it depends on the gauge-fixing and it does not work on singular configurations. At some point on the iterative process one usually reach some sub-graphs containing those singular configurations and then the algorithm cease to work. Here we show how the Λ-algorithm is improved by using the cross-ratio identities on graphs containing singular configurations. In addition, we find some recurrence relations for particular types of CHY-integrands. Ultimately, the cross-ratio identities in conjunction with the Λ-algorithm provide a more efficient and systematic way to deal with amplitudes with a large number of particles.

Some notations
For reader's convenience, let us briefly introduce some notations here, which will be useful in the computation of some non-trivial examples soon after. We define the stripped Mandelstam variables s a 1 ...am as which equals to the standard Mandelstam variables s a 1 ...am = (k a 1 + · · · + k am ) 2 /2 when all k a i 's are massless. We also follow the conventional definition k a 1 ...am := k a 1 + k a 2 + · · · + k am , (4.2)

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and whenever [a 1 , . . . , a m ] is present in I(z) or s, it stands for the punctured point merged from points {z a 1 , . . . , z am } in graph associated to the massive momentum k a 1 ...am . The colored notation in [21] which is needed to apply the Λ-algorithm is adopted, and for details please refer to [21].
All the results obtained from the Λ-algorithm can be written as a linear combination of the following fundamental diagrams and its powers where {k b , k c , k d } could be off-shell particles.

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where we have set the gauge-fixing so as to avoid singular configurations [21]. All non-zero allowable configurations for this diagram are given by [21] = 1 s 23 , The Λ-algorithm stops at this step, since we have reached sub-diagrams containing singular configurations which needs to be rewritten in terms of non-singular sub-diagrams by using the cross-ratio identities, as we shall explain soon after. Let us remember that in this graph, {k a , k b , k c } can be off-shell. First of all, notice that only the E d and E e scattering equations can be used, since the remaining points are already fixed. Moreover, clearly this graph has a triple pole, 1/ s 3 cde . So, it is simple to show that using the E d and E e scattering equations one obtains the following cross-ratio identity s cde = s ad z ab z cd z bc z ad + s ae z ab z ce z bc z ae , (4.7) which agrees with (2.18). We can represent the identity above by the graph In order to eliminate the triple pole we take the square of (4.8)  which was checked numerically. We remark that, for this particular example where we have combined the Λ-algorithm with the cross-ratio identities, we solved a total of three CHY-integrands. On the other hand, applying directly the cross-ratio identities over the CHY-integrand in (4.5), one must compute ten CHY graphs, So, although the decomposition technique with the cross-ratio identities is a good method by itself, in combination with the Λ-algorithm it produces an even more efficient approach. The simple example above is enough to show how both methods work out together, and instead of going into harder examples we choose to present a new recurrence relation that can be obtained from this combination.
It is very well-known that this type of CHY-integrands is highly non-trivial and one can solve them from the cross-ratio identities. 6 However, the price to pay is that the number of CHY-integrands of simple poles to be computed is very large. So, in order to partially simplify the decomposition procedure, we seek help from the Λ-algorithm. Nevertheless, the Λ-algorithm alone is not enough to obtain the final answer, so we use the cross-ratio identities but now over smaller sub-graphs. Note that for above particular type of diagrams with PT 2 ⊕ PT 2 geometry, after applying the Λ-algorithm, the resulting sub-graphs are of the same type, i.e. PT 2 ⊕ PT 2 , or just PT 2 . This feature suggests a recurrence relation.
So as to find this recurrence relation, let us consider the following ten-point example (4.13) where we have chosen a proper gauge in order to avoid singular configurations and we have drawn all non-zero allowable configurations. Following this example, we can intermediately deduce the new recurrence relation.

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By using the notation in appendix C, we make the following definitions. Let where remind again that [a 1 , a 2 , . . . , a m ] denotes a massive particle with momentum equaling m i=1 k a i . Applying this recurrence relation over the example in (4.13), one obtains (for presentation purpose here we omit the superscript PT 2 ⊕ PT 2 and PT 2 ) can be reduced using, iteratively, the recurrence relation (4.17). In addition, in appendix D we have given the expressions for these diagrams.
It is important to note that the relation in (4.17) only works for CHY-integrands with m > 2. In other words, CHY-integrands such as I PT 2 ⊕PT 2 2,n−2 (1, 2 | 3, . . . , n) with n > 4 under the gauge-fixing as in (4.13) can not be solved just by the Λ-algorithm, and therefore we should proceed to use the cross-ratio identities. The main idea of the recurrence relation in (4.17) is to use it to straightforwardly reduce the original CHY-integrand with n smaller than n, and then apply the cross-ratio identities.
For our particular example in (4.13), we were able to reduce the whole expression in (4.18) as a linear combination of I PT 2 ⊕PT 2 2,3 (a, b |c, d, e) diagram (see appendix D). This diagram was solved previously by using the cross-ratio identities, and its answer is given in (4.10).
For the most general case, we must solve the n = (q + 2)-point CHY-integrand which has a total number of terms, q − 1 + (q−1)(q−2) 2 = q (q−1) 2 . Therefore, the CHYintegrand is solved in a straightforward manner by computing a number of q (q−1) 2 trivial CHYintegrands.
Finally, noticing that the recurrence relation (4.17) is only a consequence of the iterative nature of the Λ-algorithm, we can build many other relations by using the same method. The only particularity that need to be satisfied in order to have an ordered recurrence is that the graphs under consideration should possess some symmetry such that the cutting process preserves this "symmetry" for the smaller sub-graphs. For instance, for the particular case in (4.13), the original graph is build out from two disjoint pieces, and in an appropriate gauge avoiding singular configurations, all the allowed cuts produce sub-graphs with the same topology as the original graph. Examples where similar recurrence relations can be also obtained are graphs of the type PT 2 n := (PT 2 ) ⊕ (PT 2 ) ⊕ · · · ⊕ (PT 2 ). Such CHY-integrands could have very large Υ, thus it is very necessary to apply Λ-algorithm before decomposition algorithm with cross-ratio identity. By solely using the Λ-algorithm we will reach sub-diagrams containing singular configurations where the Λ-algorithm cease to work and hence stop the recurrence. The remaining sub-diagrams should be then rewritten by means of the cross-ratio identities in order to either solving them directly by integration rules of simple poles or by continuing the cutting process of Λ-algorithm.

Conclusion
Based on the extremely simple and efficient method of integration rules for CHY-integrands with only simple poles [23,24], we propose a systematic decomposition algorithm by use of cross-ratio identities, which can be applied to decompose any CHY-integrand of higherorder poles to those with only simple poles, suitable for evaluating by the integration rules. The basic idea of the algorithm can be described as follows. For any CHY-integrand with higher-order poles, we multiply it with identities which are linear combination of terms as i.e., cross-ratios of z ij . The cross-ratios of z ij reformulate the original CHY-integrands of higher-order poles as new ones with only simple poles which can be evaluated trivially, while the s B in denominator will compensate the extra degrees of higher-order poles, such

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that the final result still possess higher-order poles. This idea is exactly the same as the algorithm proposed in [30], but in [30] identities from monodromy relations are used instead of cross-ratio identities, and we have shown in the appendix B that a decomposition with the former is far less efficient than that with the later for large number of scattering particles and complicated higher-order pole structures, due to the fact that the number of terms in an identity of monodromy relation grows factorially while in cross-ratio identity algebraically.
An eight-point CHY-integrand with one triple pole and six double poles is computed in section 3, resulting in around 10,000 terms of only simple poles, which summed up to produce the amplitude by integration rules, with the evaluation time around a few minutes. The increasing of scattering particles will not affect the computation efficiency much, but the increasing of higher-order poles will significantly increase the number of resulting terms, since in order to compensate an extra 1 s i 1 ···i k , we need to multiply an identity with (k − 1)(n − k − 1) terms, and consequently the number of resulting terms will be about (k − 1)(n − k − 1) times larger. So for CHY-integrands with very large n and complicated higher-order pole structures, the number of resulting CHY-integrands after decomposition will easily reach the size of millions, which slows the computation. 7 In need of these situations, we seek help from Λ-algorithm [21,22]. The Λ-algorithm rewrites a CHY-integrand as products of lower-point CHY-integrands, until the resulting lower-point ones can not be computed by Λ-algorithm. We show that for particular type of CHYintegrands, recurrence relations can be deduced to iteratively transform a specific CHYintegrand into lower-point ones which are easy to compute by cross-ratio identities. The combination of Λ-algorithm with decomposition algorithm makes a more efficient method for evaluating large n-particle amplitude by use of cross-ratio identities.
Some aspects are in the following. The CHY-integrand we consider in this paper is quite general, with in fact any possible higher-order poles. Thus the decomposition algorithm is suitable and ready for evaluating Yang-Mills amplitudes and even gravity amplitudes in the context of CHY-formulation, not only in principle but also in practical. Since the crossratio identities deal with CHY-integrands with higher-order poles, while in [29] Feynman rules for higher-order poles are conjectured, it would be interesting to investigate if one can prove those Feynman rules by cross-ratio identities and further derive rules for more higher-order poles. Another interesting problem considers the recurrence relation by Λalgorithm. We have in this paper presented a recurrence relation for CHY-integrands with (PT) 2 ⊕ (PT) 2 geometry, to iteratively rewrite a CHY-integrand to other specific ones which are easy to compute. It would be interesting to generalize the study of recurrence relations to a broader range of CHY-integrands with other complicated geometries where a direct decomposition algorithm would take too much time.

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From the practices , we found that it is not necessary to restrict to a given gauge-fixing in order to compute the sign. Although the inversion factor is not the same in different gauges, the parity of N inv is invariant, while the (±) sign depends only on the parity. In fact, we can define the inversion factor without referring to any fixed points, as will be shown in the following.
For a length-n set Σ = {σ 1 , σ 2 , . . . , σ n }, which is a permutation of {1, 2, . . . , n}, the signature of set Σ is defined to be (−1) N , where N is the number of times required to iteratively permute two adjacent elements in order to arrive at the canonical ordering {1, 2, . . . , n}. so N = 2. Of course there are many different permutations to do so, but the signature is invariant. Here we define the weighted signature (−1) N , where N is the weighted number of times. For each permutation of two adjacent elements i ↔ j, we count the number as β ij but not 1, where β ij is determined by a given CHY-integrand. So for the above example, we have N = β 23 + β 45 , and the weighted signature is (−1) β 23 +β 45 . Now we define the inversion factor 9 for a compatible combination A = {A α 1 , A α 2 , . . . , A α n−3 } of a given CHY-integrand I(z ij ). Define the length-n set Σ = {σ 1 , σ 2 , . . . , σ n } to be cyclically ordered, i.e., σ n and σ 1 are also considered to be adjacent. An adjacent subset A α of Σ is defined to be a subset of Σ whose elements are adjacent in Σ (but the ordering of elements in A α dose not need to respect the ordering in Σ). For example, both {σ 2 , σ 3 , σ 4 } and {σ 2 , σ 4 , σ 3 } are adjacent subsets of Σ, while {σ 1 , σ 2 , σ n } is also an adjacent subset, but {σ 2 , σ 3 , σ 5 } is not.
A cyclically ordered length-n set Σ = {σ 1 , σ 2 , . . . , σ n } is said to be the parent set of a compatible combination {A α 1 , A α 2 , . . . , A α n−3 } if all subsets A α i 's are adjacent subsets of Σ. Provided we have already found a parent set Σ of a compatible combination A, then the inversion factor N inv of A is defined to be the weighted number N for permuting Σ = {σ 1 , σ 2 , . . . , σ n } to canonical ordering {1, 2, . . . , n}, and the sign of the term associated to the compatible combination A is nothing but (−1) n+1+N inv = (−1) n+1+N , proportional to the weighted signature of parent set Σ. Of course, there will be more than one cyclically ordered sets which could be the parent set of a given compatible combination. Although the weighted number N of them are different, the parity of N is invariant, so is the weighted signature. In this case, we only need to find one parent set for a compatible combination, and compute the (±) sign with it.
For a given compatible combination A = {A α 1 , A α 2 , . . . , A α n−3 } of CHY-integrand I(z ij ), now we shall find its parent set. Naively, one can generate all the permutation sets of {1, 2, . . . , n} in Mathematica, and select one set which is the parent set of A. However, the number of permutation sets grows factorially with n, so it is practically not efficient. We propose the following strategy to construct a parent set of A. Remind that any two subsets in a compatible combination satisfy compatible condition, i.e., they should 9 Note again here without referring to any gauge, which is different from the definition in [31].
• If A α 2 is nested with A α 1 , we will replace A α 1 with a new subset A α 1 , and consequently denotes the complement set of A α j with respective to A α i , i.e., a set whose elements are in A α i but not A α j . This construction is to ensure that A α 1 as well as A α 2 are the adjacent subsets of a parent set.
After A α 2 is done, we continue to A α 3 , where now we should consider A α 3 to be nested or disjoint with all subsets in B from previous step. For example, if in previous step we get Because from the construction, the subsets included in B are always disjoint with each other, so A α 3 could only be a subset of either , and renew the set as • If any subsets in B are subsets of A α 3 , -If only one subset in B is a subset of the one under consideration, explicitly here , and renew the set -If more than one subset in B are subsets of the one under consideration, explicitly here A α 1 ⊂ A α 3 and A α 2 ⊂ A α 3 , since A α 1 and A α 2 are disjoint, we can define a new subset to replace A α 1 , A α 2 , and renew the set as B = {A α 1 }.
With such strategy, we can enlarge set B until the last A α n−3 in the compatible combination is considered. The subsets in B are by construction disjoint to each other. Assuming B = {B 1 , B 2 , . . . , B k }, a parent set of compatible combination A can then be given by 10 A1 +A2 stands for a new set with elements from A1 followed by elements from A2, keeping the ordering.

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The construction of parent set is already done, but we can go a step further. Because of the cyclic invariance, we can always fix 1 in the first position of Σ as the convention. All above operations can be easily implemented in Mathematica. It is better to understand above algorithm with an example. Let us consider the following six-point CHY-integrand with non-trivial numerator (A.7) Following the strategy, we have  which are all even integers. Thus the parity invariance of inversion factor is clearly shown. 11

B The identities from monodromy relation and cross-ratio identities
In [30], an identity for generic pole s 12···k is constructed from monodromy relations, as 12 The fact that similar monodromy relations exist in CHY-integrands as those in string and gauge theory amplitudes is itself very interesting, while practically the identities 11 Although this is confirmed by numerous computations, we should remark that there is not yet a proof on it. 12 A derivation of the relation can be found in [32]. and .

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Although they can be computed trivially by integration rules of simple poles, let us repeat here by the means of recurrence relations of Λ-algorithm, with similar idea that can be

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generalized to other recurrence relations of more complicated geometry. Clearly, the number of all possible non-zero allowable configurations is (n − 2). From the Λ-algorithm, it is very well-known that each cut splits the original graph into two sub-graphs, which are of the same type, i.e., (Parke − Taylor) 2 . Before writing this new recurrence relation, we give some definitions which will be useful. Let o i be the set of ordered elements given by , (C.10) 13 Let us remember that the Λ-algorithm is an iterative process.