Exploring inelasticity in the S-matrix bootstrap

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2023.138225arXiv2301.13219OpenAlexW4387365850MaRDI QIDQ6186507FDOQ6186507

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Publication date: 2 February 2024

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The modern S-Matrix Bootstrap provides non-perturbative bounds on low-energy aspects of scattering amplitudes, leveraging the constraints of unitarity, analyticity and crossing. Typically, the solutions saturating such bounds also saturate the unitarity constraint as much as possible, meaning that they are almost exclusively elastic. This is expected to be unphysical in $d>2$ because of Aks' theorem. We explore this issue by adding inelasticity as an additional input, both using a primal approach in general dimensions which extends the usual ansatz, and establishing a dual formulation in the 2d case. We then measure the effects on the low-energy observables where we observe stronger bounds than in the standard setup.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13219

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX) Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

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