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We present two novel results about the universal structure of radiative QED amplitudes in the soft and in the collinear limit. On the one hand, we extend the well-known Low-Burnett-Kroll theorem to the one-loop level and give the explicit relation between the radiative and non-radiative amplitude at subleading power in the soft limit. On the other hand, we consider a factorisation formula at leading power in the limit where the emitted photon becomes collinear to a light fermion and provide the corresponding one-loop splitting function. In addition to being interesting in their own right these findings are particularly relevant in the context of fully-differential higher-order QED calculations. One of the main challenges in this regard is the numerical stability of radiative contributions in the soft and collinear regions. The results presented here allow for a stabilisation of realvirtual amplitudes in these delicate phase-space regions by switching to the corresponding approximation without the need of explicit computations.
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Engel, T., Signer, A. & Ulrich, Y. Universal structure of radiative QED amplitudes at one loop. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 97 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2022)097
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