Projectivity of planar zeros in field and string theory amplitudes

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)011zbMATH Open1380.83094arXiv1703.07274MaRDI QIDQ682887FDOQ682887

Authors: Diego Medrano Jiménez, Agustín Sabio Vera, M. A. Vázquez-Mozo 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

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

Abstract: We study the projective properties of planar zeros of tree-level scattering amplitudes in various theories. Whereas for pure scalar field theories we find that the planar zeros of the five-point amplitude do not enjoy projective invariance, coupling scalars to gauge fields gives rise to tree-level amplitudes whose planar zeros are determined by homogeneous polynomials in the stereographic coordinates labelling the direction of flight of the outgoing particles. In the case of pure gauge theories, this projective structure is generically destroyed if string corrections are taken into account. Scattering amplitudes of two scalars with graviton emission vanish exactly in the planar limit, whereas planar graviton amplitudes are zero for helicity violating configurations. These results are corrected by string effects, computed using the single-valued projection, which render the planar amplitude nonzero. Finally, we discuss how the structure of planar zeros can be derived from the soft limit behavior of the scattering amplitudes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07274

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zbMATH Keywords

models of quantum gravityscattering amplitudesperturbative QCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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