Abelian Z-theory: NLSM amplitudes and '-corrections from the open string

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)093zbMATH Open1380.83251arXiv1608.02569OpenAlexW3106037049MaRDI QIDQ683203FDOQ683203

Authors: John Joseph M. Carrasco, Carlos R. Mafra, Oliver Schlotterer 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

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

Abstract: In this paper we derive the tree-level S-matrix of the effective theory of Goldstone bosons known as the non-linear sigma model (NLSM) from string theory. This novel connection relies on a recent realization of tree-level open-superstring S-matrix predictions as a double copy of super-Yang-Mills theory with Z-theory --- the collection of putative scalar effective field theories encoding all the alpha'-dependence of the open superstring. Here we identify the color-ordered amplitudes of the NLSM as the low-energy limit of abelian Z-theory. This realization also provides natural higher-derivative corrections to the NLSM amplitudes arising from higher powers of alpha' in the abelian Z-theory amplitudes, and through double copy also to Born-Infeld and Volkov-Akulov theories. The Kleiss-Kuijf and Bern-Carrasco-Johansson relations obeyed by Z-theory amplitudes thereby apply to all alpha'-corrections of the NLSM. As such we naturally obtain a cubic-graph parameterization for the abelian Z-theory predictions whose kinematic numerators obey the duality between color and kinematics to all orders in alpha'.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02569

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zbMATH Keywords

scattering amplitudessigma modelssuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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