On the Lagrangian formulation of the double copy to cubic order

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2021)213MaRDI QIDQ2026084zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pietro Ferrero, Dario Francia

Publication date 17 May 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00713

zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetryscattering amplitudesspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: We investigate the Lagrangian formulation of the double-copy correspondence between gauge theories and gravity, up to the cubic order. Building on the definition of the double-copy field as a convolution of two vectors, we obtain free gravitational Lagrangians as products of two Yang-Mills Lagrangians, in a form amenable to be easily extended to the massive case. We discuss the origin of these results from tensionless strings and show the existence of gauge fixings that mix the two spin-one sectors and lead to an alternative, especially simple, version of the free Lagrangian. We then construct cubic vertices for the full double-copy multiplet, comprising a graviton, a two-form and a scalar particle, by means of the Noether procedure. Both at the free and at the cubic level the result gets uniquely fixed only upon imposing, on top of gauge invariance, a left-right Lorentz symmetry ruling contraction of indices among double-copy fields. Whereas the outcome nicely matches the cubic interactions of $mathcalN=0$ supergravity, including the gauge-invariant coupling between the scalar particle and the two-form, such a twofold Lorentz symmetry seems to conflict with the perturbative reconstruction of space-time geometry.

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