Scattering amplitudes as multi-particle higher-spin charges in the correspondence space

Abstract

Following the proposal of arXiv:1312.6673, multi-particle scattering amplitudes are represented as conserved higher-spin charges. The advantage of such reformulation is that multi-particle amplitudes acquire the form of an integral of a closed form in the correspondence unifying usual space-time with the twistor-like spinor space. This allows one to identify seemingly different formulae for amplitudes in terms of twistor and space-time integrals. Example of tree MHV amplitudes of Yang-Mills theory is considered in detail. Our results are derived using unfolded dynamics formulation of massless fields. In these terms all information on the amplitude is contained in a single function $\eta$ that, even for lower spin amplitudes, can be interpreted as a higher-spin symmetry parameter. The proposed technique can be useful to relate different approaches to amplitude calculations.