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Using BCFW on-shell recursion techniques, we prove a sequence of explicit n-point Kawai-Lewellen-Tye relations between gravity and Yang-Mills amplitudes at tree level.
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Bjerrum-Bohr, N.E.J., Damgaard, P.H., Feng, B. et al. Proof of gravity and Yang-Mills amplitude relations. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 67 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2010)067
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