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Nuclear Physics B 721 (2005) 98–110 A recursion relation for gravity amplitudes James Bedford, Andreas Brandhuber, Bill Spence, Gabriele Travaglini Department of Physics, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom Received 24 February 2005; received in revised form 21 April 2005; accepted 19 May 2005 Available online 13 June 2005 Abstract Britto, Cachazo and Feng have recently derived a recursion relation for tree-level scattering am- plitudes in Yang–Mills. This relation has a bilinear structure inherited from factorisation on multi- particle poles of the scattering amplitudes—a rather generic feature of field theory. Motivated by this, we propose a new recursion relation for scattering amplitudes of gravitons at tree level. Using this, we derive a new general formula for the MHV tree-level scattering amplitude for n gravitons. Finally, we comment on the existence of recursion relations in general field theories.  2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Much progress has been made in the past year in understanding the structure and practi- cal calculation of scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Yang–Mills theories [1]. This has been prompted by the conjecture that twistor string theory provides a dual description of weakly-coupled gauge theory [2]. Outstanding progress in the efficient calculation of scattering amplitudes was achieved ˇ by Cachazo, Svrcek and Witten (CSW) [3], who proposed a radical new method for computing tree-level amplitudes in Yang–Mills using MHV amplitudes, appropriately con- E-mail addresses: j.a.p.bedford@qmul.ac.uk (J. Bedford), a.brandhuber@qmul.ac.uk (A. Brandhuber), w.j.spence@qmul.ac.uk (B. Spence), g.travaglini@qmul.ac.uk (G. Travaglini). 0550-3213/$ – se