On the symmetry foundation of double soft theorems

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2017)032MaRDI QIDQ1707699zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhi-Zhong Li, Hung-Hwa Lin, Shun-Qing Zhang

Publication date 3 April 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00480

zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriesscattering amplitudesspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: Double-soft theorems, like its single-soft counterparts, arises from the underlying symmetry principles that constrain the interactions of massless particles. While single soft theorems can be derived in a non-perturbative fashion by employing current algebras, recent attempts of extending such an approach to known double soft theorems has been met with difficulties. In this work, we have traced the difficulty to two inequivalent expansion schemes, depending on whether the soft limit is taken asymmetrically or symmetrically, which we denote as type A and B respectively. We show that soft-behaviour for type A scheme can simply be derived from single soft theorems, and are thus non-preturbatively protected. For type B, the information of the four-point vertex is required to determine the corresponding soft theorems, and thus are in general not protected. This argument can be readily extended to general multi-soft theorems. We also ask whether unitarity can be emergent from locality together with the two kinds of soft theorems, which has not been fully investigated before.

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