On unitarity of the Coon amplitude

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2023)082arXiv2212.00764MaRDI QIDQ6074088FDOQ6074088

Authors: Rishabh Bhardwaj, Shounak De, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich 

Publication date: 12 October 2023

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

Abstract: The Coon amplitude is a one-parameter deformation of the Veneziano amplitude. We explore the unitarity of the Coon amplitude through its partial wave expansion using tools from $q$-calculus. Our analysis establishes manifest positivity on the leading and sub-leading Regge trajectories while revealing a violation of unitarity in a certain region of $(q,D)$ parameter space starting at the sub-sub-leading Regge order. A combination of numerical studies and analytic arguments allows us to argue for the manifest positivity of the partial wave coefficients in fixed spin and Regge asymptotics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00764

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic stringsscattering amplitudessuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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