Probing scalar effective field theories with the soft limits of scattering amplitudes

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2017)015zbMATH Open1378.81147arXiv1612.04283MaRDI QIDQ680613FDOQ680613

Antonio Padilla, Toby Wilson, David Stefanyszyn

Publication date: 23 January 2018

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

Abstract: We investigate the soft behaviour of scalar effective field theories (EFTs) when there is a number of distinct derivative power counting parameters, $h{o}_1<h{o}_2<ldots<h{o}_Q$. We clarify the notion of an enhanced soft limit and use these to extend the scope of on-shell recursion techniques for scalar EFTs. As an example, we perform a detailed study of theories with two power counting parameters, $h{o}_1=1$ and $h{o}_2=2$, that include the shift symmetric generalised galileons. We demonstrate that the minimally enhanced soft limit uniquely picks out the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) symmetry, including DBI galileons. For the exceptional soft limit we uniquely pick out the special galileon within the class of theories under investigation. We study the DBI galileon amplitudes more closely, verifying the validity of the recursion techniques in generating the six point amplitude, and explicitly demonstrating the invariance of all amplitudes under DBI galileon duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04283

zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriesglobal symmetriesscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15)

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• Radiation of scalar modes and the classical double copy
• Effective field theories and cosmological scattering equations
• Lie-algebraic classification of effective theories with enhanced soft limits
• Quantum corrections to generic branes: DBI, NLSM, and more
• Soft bootstrap and effective field theories
• Symmetric superfluids
• Shift symmetries in (anti) de Sitter space
• Matter couplings and equivalence principles for soft scalars
• Soft theorems for boostless amplitudes
• All-multiplicity one-loop amplitudes in Born-Infeld electrodynamics from generalized unitarity
• Internal supersymmetry and small-field Goldstini
• Scalar fields near compact objects: resummation versus UV completion
• Spontaneously broken spacetime symmetries and the role of inessential Goldstones
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• The analytic structure of amplitudes on backgrounds from gauge invariance and the infra-red
• Symmetry breaking patterns for inflation
• An algebraic classification of exceptional EFTs. II: Supersymmetry
• Shift symmetries for \(p\)-forms and mixed symmetry fields on (A)ds
• Symmetric scalars

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