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We discuss monodromy relations between different color-ordered amplitudes in gauge theories. We show that Jacobi-like relations of Bern, Carrasco and Johansson can be introduced in a manner that is compatible with these monodromy relations. The Jacobi-like relations are not the most general set of equations that satisfy this criterion. Applications to supergravity amplitudes follow straightforwardly through the KLT-relations. We explicitly show how the tree-level relations give rise to non-trivial identities at loop level.
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Bjerrum-Bohr, N.E.J., Damgaard, P.H., Søndergaard, T. et al. Monodromy and Jacobi-like relations for color-ordered amplitudes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 3 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2010)003
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