# Perturbative quantum gravity as a double copy of gauge theory.

@article{Bern2010PerturbativeQG,
title={Perturbative quantum gravity as a double copy of gauge theory.},
author={Zvi Bern and John Joseph M. Carrasco and Henrik Johansson},
journal={Physical review letters},
year={2010},
volume={105 6},
pages={
061602
}
}
• Published 4 April 2010
• Physics
• Physical review letters
In a previous paper we observed that (classical) tree-level gauge-theory amplitudes can be rearranged to display a duality between color and kinematics. Once this is imposed, gravity amplitudes are obtained using two copies of gauge-theory diagram numerators. Here we conjecture that this duality persists to all quantum loop orders and can thus be used to obtain multiloop gravity amplitudes easily from gauge-theory ones. As a nontrivial test, we show that the three-loop four-point amplitude of N…
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