Constructibility of AdS supergluon amplitudes

Abstract

We prove that all tree-level $n$-point supergluon (scalar) amplitudes in AdS$_5$ can be recursively constructed, using factorization and flat-space limit. Our method is greatly facilitated by a natural R-symmetry basis for planar color-ordered amplitudes, which reduces the latter to "partial amplitudes" with simpler pole structures and factorization properties. Given the $n$-point scalar amplitude, we first extract spinning amplitudes with $n{-}2$ scalars and one gluon by imposing "gauge invariance", and then use a special "no-gluon kinematics" to determine the $(n{+}1)$-point scalar amplitude completely (which in turn contains the $n$-point single-gluon amplitude). Explicit results of up to 8-point scalar amplitudes and up to 6-point single-gluon amplitudes are included as Supplemental Material.