Paper
On the Rational Terms of the one-loop amplitudes
Authors
Giovanni Ossola, Costas G. Papadopoulos, Roberto Pittau
Abstract
The various sources of Rational Terms contributing to the one-loop amplitudes are critically discussed. We show that the terms originating from the generic (n-4)-dimensional structure of the numerator of the one-loop amplitude can be derived by using appropriate Feynman rules within a tree-like computation. For the terms that originate from the reduction of the 4-dimensional part of the numerator, we present two different strategies and explicit algorithms to compute them.