https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14318-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Accelerating Berends–Giele recursion for gluons in arbitrary dimensions over finite fields
1
Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
2
Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, Edinburgh, UK
3
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 3, 79104, Freiburg, Germany
Received:
21
February
2025
Accepted:
15
May
2025
Published online:
29
May
2025
This work provides a proof of concept for the computation of pure gluonic amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) on graphics processing units (GPUs). The implementation relies on the Berends–Giele recursion algorithm and, for the first time on a GPU, enables the numerical computation of amplitudes in an arbitrary number of space-time dimensions and over finite fields. This demonstrates the advantages of hardware acceleration, not only for the computation of tree-level amplitudes for real-radiation processes in four dimensions over complex numbers but also for generating loop integrands for virtual corrections in d dimensions over finite fields. The associated computer program is publicly available.
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