Composing Effective Prediction at Five Points

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Color-kinematics duality in the adjoint has proven key to the relationship between gauge and gravity theory scattering amplitude predictions.

• In recent work, we demonstrated that at four-point tree-level, a small number of color-dual EFT building blocks could encode all higher-derivative single-trace massless corrections to gauge and gravity theories compatible with adjoint double-copy.
• One critical aspect was the trivialization of building higher-derivative color-weights -- indeed, it is the mixing of kinematics with non-adjoint-type color-weights (like the permutation-invariant d^4) which permits description via adjoint double-copy.
• Here we find that such ideas clarify the predictions of local five-point higher-dimensional operators as well.