Equivalence of two contour prescriptions in superstring perturbation theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2017)025zbMATH Open1378.83089arXiv1610.00443MaRDI QIDQ680620FDOQ680620

Ashoke Sen

Publication date: 23 January 2018

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

Abstract: Conventional superstring perturbation theory based on the world-sheet approach gives divergent results for the S-matrix whenever the total center of mass energy of the incoming particles exceeds the threshold of production of any final state consistent with conservation laws. Two systematic approaches have been suggested for dealing with this difficulty. The first one involves deforming the integration cycles over the moduli space of punctured Riemann surfaces into complexified moduli space. The second one treats the amplitude as a sum of superstring field theory Feynman diagrams and deforms the integration contours over loop energies of the Feynman diagram into the complex plane. In this paper we establish the equivalence of the two prescriptions to all orders in perturbation theory. Since the second approach is known to lead to unitary amplitudes, this establishes the consistency of the first prescription with unitarity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00443

zbMATH Keywords

string field theorysuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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