Scattering of Gravitons and Spinning Massive States from Compact Numerators

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We provide a new efficient diagrammatic tool, in the context of the scattering equations, for computation of covariant $D$-dimensional tree-level $n$-point amplitudes with pairs of spinning massive particles using compact exponential numerators.

• We discuss how this framework allows non-integer spin extensions of recurrence relations for amplitudes developed for integer spin.
• Our results facilitate the on-going program for generating observables in classical general relativity from on-shell tree amplitudes through the Kawai-Lewellen-Tye relations and generalized unitarity.