A six-gluon obstruction to dimension-independent local color-kinematics duality at one loop
We establish an obstruction to dimension-independent local color-kinematics duality for the one-loop six-gluon amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory. The maximal and fivefold cuts admit a polynomial solution, but no allowed contact correction reproduces a required fourfold cut. We consider parity-even Lorentz-polynomial...