New strings for old Veneziano amplitudes. II: group-theoretic treatment (Q2496748)

Part I, see the author, Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. 2, No.~4, 563--584 (2005; Zbl 1081.81093), for Part III see the author, ibid. J. Geom. Phys. 56, No. 9, 1433--1472 (2006; Zbl 1117.81115). The original amplitude proposed by Veneziano was to explain the \(2\to2\) scattering of scalar (spin-0) pions. This amplitude is essentially the Euler Beta function and has a remarkable duality property (quite unlike amplitudes in quantum field theory), in the so-called \(s\)- and \(t\)-channels. The pions satisfy equations of motion (they are ``on mass-shell'') and hence a set of functions of their momenta, called the Mandelstam variables, satisfy the relation that their sum adds to \(-1\). Starting with this property, a generalized relation is written as a homogeneous equation. The present paper is one in a series of papers in which the author explores mathematical properties of Veneziano-like amplitudes that satisfy this type of relation. It may also be of interest to note that the Veneziano amplitude has been generalized by considering its quantum extension (\textit{e.g.} \textit{D. Coon}, Phys. Lett., B 29, 669 ff. (1969); \textit{M. Baker} and \textit{D. Coon}, Phys. Rev. D 2, 2349 (1970)]) (\(q\)-deformation) as well as to the field of \(p\)-adic numbers [\textit{B. Grossmann}, Phys. Lett., B 197, 101 ff. (1987; Zbl 0694.22006); \textit{I. Volovich}, Classical Quantum Gravity 4, No. 4, L83--L87 (1987)].