The complex null string, Galilean conformal algebra and scattering equations

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)164zbMATH Open1383.83163arXiv1707.09900MaRDI QIDQ1709372FDOQ1709372

Authors: Eduardo Casali, Yannick Herfray, Piotr Tourkine 

Publication date: 27 March 2018

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

Abstract: The scattering equation formalism for scattering amplitudes, and its stringy incarnation, the ambitwistor string, remains a mysterious construction. In this paper, we pursue the study a gauged-unfixed version of the ambitwistor string known as the null string. We explore the following three aspects in detail; its complexification, gauge fixing, and amplitudes. We first study the complexification of the string; the associated symmetries and moduli, and connection to the ambitwistor string. We then look in more details at the leftover symmetry algebra of the string, called Galilean conformal algebra; we study its local and global action and gauge-fixing. We finish by presenting an operator formalism, that we use to compute tree-level scattering amplitudes based on the scattering equations and a one-loop partition function. These results hopefully will open the way to understand conceptual questions related to the loop expansion in these twistor-like string models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09900

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zbMATH Keywords

bosonic stringsscattering amplitudesstring theory and cosmic stringstwistor-like string

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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