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We use the pure spinor formalism to obtain the supersymmetric massless five-point amplitude at tree-level in a streamlined fashion. We also prove the equivalence of an OPE identity in string theory with a subset of the Bern-Carrasco-Johansson five-point kinematic relations, and demonstrate how the remaining BCJ identities follow from the different integration regions over the open string world-sheet, therefore providing a first principles derivation of the (supersymmetric) BCJ identities.
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Mafra, C.R. Simplifying the tree-level superstring massless five-point amplitude. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 7 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2010)007
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