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In this paper we study tree-level amplitudes from higher-dimensional operators, including F 3 operator of gauge theory, and R 2, R 3 operators of gravity, in the Cachazo-He-Yuan formulation. As a generalization of the reduced Pfaffian in Yang-Mills theory, we find a new, gauge-invariant object that leads to gluon amplitudes with a single insertion of F 3, and gravity amplitudes by Kawai-Lewellen-Tye relations. When reduced to four dimensions for given helicities, the new object vanishes for any solution of scattering equations on which the reduced Pfaffian is non-vanishing. This intriguing behavior in four dimensions explains the vanishing of graviton helicity amplitudes produced by the Gauss-Bonnet R 2 term, and provides a scattering-equation origin of the decomposition into self-dual and anti-self-dual parts for F 3 and R 3 amplitudes.
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He, S., Zhang, Y. New formulas for amplitudes from higher-dimensional operators. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 19 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2017)019
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