scholarly journals Gluon scattering in AdS from CFT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis F. Alday ◽  
Connor Behan ◽  
Pietro Ferrero ◽  
Xinan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Phenomenological Models ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Conformal Symmetry ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Higher Weights

Abstract We present a systematic study of holographic correlators in a vast array of SCFTs with non-maximal superconformal symmetry. These theories include 4d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 SCFTs from D3-branes near F-theory singularities, 5d Seiberg exceptional theories and 6d E-string theory, as well as 3d and 4d phenomenological models with probe flavor branes. We consider current multiplets and their generalizations with higher weights, dual to massless and massive super gluons in the bulk. At leading order in the inverse central charge expansion, connected four-point functions of these operators correspond to tree-level gluon scattering amplitudes in AdS. We show that all such tree-level four-point amplitudes in all these theories are fully fixed by symmetries and consistency conditions and explicitly construct them. Our results encode a wealth of SCFT data and exhibit various interesting emergent structures. These include Parisi-Sourlas-like dimensional reductions, hidden conformal symmetry and an AdS version of the color-kinematic duality.

scholarly journals Tree-level splitting amplitudes for a gluon into four collinear partons

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vittorio Del Duca ◽  
Claude Duhr ◽  
Rayan Haindl ◽  
Achilleas Lazopoulos ◽  
Martin Michel
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Strong Coupling Constant ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Coupling Constant ◽  
Level Splitting ◽  
Infrared Behaviour

Abstract We compute in conventional dimensional regularisation the tree-level splitting amplitudes for a gluon parent which splits into four collinear partons. This is part of the universal infrared behaviour of the QCD scattering amplitudes at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in the strong coupling constant. Combined with our earlier results for a quark parent, this completes the set of tree-level splitting amplitudes required at this order. We also study iterated collinear limits where a subset of the four collinear partons become themselves collinear.

scholarly journals Extracting bigravity from string theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Lüst ◽  
Chrysoula Markou ◽  
Pouria Mazloumi ◽  
Stephan Stieberger
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Bimetric Theory ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Massive Spin ◽  
Numerical Coefficient

Abstract The origin of the graviton from string theory is well understood: it corresponds to a massless state in closed string spectra, whose low-energy effective action, as extracted from string scattering amplitudes, is that of Einstein-Hilbert. In this work, we explore the possibility of such a string-theoretic emergence of ghost-free bimetric theory, a recently proposed theory that involves two dynamical metrics, that around particular backgrounds propagates the graviton and a massive spin-2 field, which has been argued to be a viable dark matter candidate. By choosing to identify the latter with a massive spin-2 state of open string spectra, we compute tree-level three-point string scattering amplitudes that describe interactions of the massive spin-2 with itself and with the graviton. With the mass of the external legs depending on the string scale, we discover that extracting the corresponding low-energy effective actions in four spacetime dimensions is a subtle but consistent process and proceed to appropriately compare them with bimetric theory. Our findings consist in establishing that string and bimetric theory provide to lowest order the same set of two-derivative terms describing the interactions of the massive spin-2 with itself and with the graviton, albeit up to numerical coefficient discrepancies, a fact that we analyze and interpret. We conclude with a mention of future investigations.

YANG-MILLS AMPLITUDES FROM STRING THEORY IN TWISTOR SPACE

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (15) ◽  
pp. 3416-3419 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCUS SPRADLIN
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Twistor Space ◽  
Mathematical Structure ◽  
Feynman Diagrams ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Algebraic Equations ◽  
Yang Mills

Tree-level gluon scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory frequently display simple mathematical structure which is completely obscure in the calculation of Feynman diagrams. We describe a novel way of calculating these amplitudes, motivated by a conjectured relation to twistor space, in which the problem of summing Feynman diagrams is replaced by the problem of solving a certain set of algebraic equations.

scholarly journals THE STOYANOVSKY–RIBAULT–TESCHNER MAP AND STRING SCATTERING AMPLITUDES

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (19n20) ◽  
pp. 4003-4034 ◽  
Author(s):  
GASTON GIRIBET ◽  
YU NAKAYAMA
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Correlation Functions ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Liouville Theory ◽  
Type Reduction ◽  
Point Correlation ◽  
Liouville Field Theory

Recently, Ribault and Teschner pointed out the existence of a one-to-one correspondence between N-point correlation functions for the SL (2,ℂ)k/ SU (2) WZNW model on the sphere and certain set of 2N-2-point correlation functions in Liouville field theory. This result is based on a seminal work by Stoyanovsky. Here, we discuss the implications of this correspondence focusing on its application to string theory on curved backgrounds. For instance, we analyze how the divergences corresponding to worldsheet instantons in AdS3 can be understood as arising from the insertion of the dual screening operator in the Liouville theory side. We also study the pole structure of N-point functions in the 2D Euclidean black hole and its holographic meaning in terms of the Little String Theory. This enables us to interpret the correspondence between CFT's as encoding a LSZ-type reduction procedure. Furthermore, we discuss the scattering amplitudes violating the winding number conservation in those backgrounds and provide a formula connecting such amplitudes with observables in Liouville field theory. Finally, we study the WZNW correlation functions in the limit k → 0 and show that, at the point k = 0, the Stoyanovsky–Ribault–Teschner dictionary turns out to be in agreement with the FZZ conjecture at a particular point of the space of parameters where the Liouville central charge becomes cL = -2. This result makes contact with recent studies on the dynamical tachyon condensation in closed string theory.

scholarly journals DIVERGENCES OF DISCRETE STATES AMPLITUDES AND EFFECTIVE LAGRANGIAN IN 2D STRING THEORY

1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (16) ◽  
pp. 1469-1476 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. YA. AREF’EVA ◽  
A.P. ZUBAREV
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Lie Algebra ◽  
Open String ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Ward Identities ◽  
Effective Lagrangian ◽  
Discrete States

Scattering amplitudes for discrete states in 2D string theory are considered. Pole divergences of tree-level amplitudes are observed and residues are interpreted as renormalized amplitudes for discrete states. An effective Lagrangian generating renormalized amplitudes for open string is obtained and the corresponding Ward identities are presented. A relation of this Lagrangian with homotopy Lie algebra is discussed.

scholarly journals Two-loop coefficient function for DVCS: vector contributions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. M. Braun ◽  
A. N. Manashov ◽  
S. Moch ◽  
J. Schoenleber
Keyword(s):  
Conformal Symmetry ◽  
Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering ◽  
Virtual Compton Scattering ◽  
Order Correction ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Coefficient Function ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Momentum Fraction ◽  
Kinematic Range ◽  
Analytic Expression

Abstract Using the approach based on conformal symmetry we calculate the two-loop coefficient function for the vector flavor-nonsinglet contribution to deeply-virtual Compton scattering (DVCS). The analytic expression for the coefficient function in momentum fraction space is presented in the $$ \overline{\mathrm{MS}} $$ MS ¯ scheme. The corresponding next-to-next-to-leading order correction to the Compton form factor ℋ for a simple model of the generalized parton distribution appears to be rather large: a factor two smaller than the next-to-leading order correction, approximately ∼ 10% of the tree level result in the bulk of the kinematic range, for Q2 = 4 GeV2.

scholarly journals The Regge limit of AdS3 holographic correlators

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Giusto ◽  
Marcel R.R. Hughes ◽  
Rodolfo Russo
Keyword(s):  
Central Charge ◽  
Minimal Solution ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Conformal Dimension ◽  
Anomalous Dimensions ◽  
Conical Defect ◽  
Pure States ◽  
Regge Limit

Abstract We study the Regge limit of 4-point AdS3× S3 correlators in the tree-level supergravity approximation and provide various explicit checks of the relation between the eikonal phase derived in the bulk picture and the anomalous dimensions of certain double-trace operators. We consider both correlators involving all light operators and HHLL correlators with two light and two heavy multi-particle states. These heavy operators have a conformal dimension proportional to the central charge and are pure states of the theory, dual to asymptotically AdS3× S3 regular geometries. Deviation from AdS3× S3 is parametrised by a scale μ and is related to the conformal dimension of the dual heavy operator. In the HHLL case, we work at leading order in μ and derive the CFT data relevant to the bootstrap relations in the Regge limit. Specifically, we show that the minimal solution to these equations relevant for the conical defect geometries is different to the solution implied by the microstate geometries dual to pure states.

scholarly journals COSMOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS WITH DILATON AND MAXIMALLY SYMMETRIC SPACE IN STRING THEORY

1992 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 223-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. TSEYTLIN
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Symmetric Space ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Spatial Curvature ◽  
Regular Solutions ◽  
First Order ◽  
Cosmological Solutions ◽  
Open Question

Time-dependent solutions of the leading-order string effective equations for a nonzero central charge deficit and curved maximally-symmetric space are studied. Some regular solutions are found for the case of nontrivial antisymmetric tensor and vector backgrounds (in various dimensions) and negative spatial curvature. It remains an open question which conformal theories are exact generalizations of these solutions. An analogy between the string cosmological solutions and the solutions of the standard first order renormalisation group equations interpolating between “static” conformal theories is discussed.

scholarly journals Post-Newtonian waveforms from spinning scattering amplitudes

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilber Fabian Bautista ◽  
Nils Siemonsen
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Radiation Field ◽  
Scattering Amplitude ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Quadrupole Moments ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Null Infinity ◽  
Binary Black Hole

Abstract We derive the classical gravitational radiation from an aligned spin binary black hole on closed orbits, using a dictionary built from the 5-point QFT scattering amplitude of two massive particles exchanging and emitting a graviton. We show explicitly the agreement of the transverse-traceless components of the radiative linear metric perturbations — and the corresponding gravitational wave energy flux — at future null infinity, derived from the scattering amplitude and those derived utilizing an effective worldline action in conjunction with multipolar post-Minkowskian matching. At the tree-level, this result holds at leading orders in the black holes’ velocities and up to quadratic order in their spins. At sub-leading order in black holes’ velocities, we demonstrate a matching of the radiation field for quasi-circular orbits in the no-spin limit. At the level of the radiation field, and to leading order in the velocities, there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the binary black hole mass and current quadrupole moments, and the scalar and linear-in-spin scattering amplitudes, respectively. Therefore, we show explicitly that waveforms, needed to detect gravitational waves from inspiraling binary black holes, can be derived consistently, to the orders considered, from the classical limit of quantum scattering amplitudes.

scholarly journals Simplicity of AdS supergravity at one loop

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis F. Alday ◽  
Xinan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Closed Form ◽  
Conformal Symmetry ◽  
Flat Space ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Loop Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Space Limit ◽  
Loop Amplitude

Abstract We demonstrate the simplicity of AdS5× S5 IIB supergravity at one loop level, by studying non-planar holographic four-point correlators in Mellin space. We develop a systematic algorithm for constructing one-loop Mellin amplitudes from the tree-level data, and obtain a simple closed form answer for the $$ \left\langle {\mathcal{O}}_2^{SG}{\mathcal{O}}_2^{SG}{\mathcal{O}}_p^{SG}{\mathcal{O}}_p^{SG}\right\rangle $$ O 2 SG O 2 SG O p SG O p SG correlators. The structure of this expression is remarkably simple, containing only simultaneous poles in the Mellin variables. We also study the flat space limit of the Mellin amplitudes, which reproduces precisely the IIB supergravity one-loop amplitude in ten dimensions. Our results provide nontrivial evidence for the persistence of the hidden conformal symmetry at one loop.

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