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In this short note I show that the soft limit for colour-ordered tree-level YangMills amplitudes contains a sub-leading divergent term. This term is analogous to those found recently by Cachazo and Strominger for tree-level gravity amplitudes.
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Casali, E. Soft sub-leading divergences in Yang-Mills amplitudes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 77 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2014)077
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