Multiparticle one-loop amplitudes and S-duality in closed superstring theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2013)188zbMATH Open1342.83372arXiv1307.3534OpenAlexW3100632988MaRDI QIDQ737692FDOQ737692

Authors: Michael B. Green, Carlos R. Mafra, Oliver Schlotterer 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: Explicit expressions for one-loop five supergraviton scattering amplitudes in both type II superstring theories are determined by making use of the pure spinor formalism. The type IIB amplitude can be expressed in terms of a doubling of ten-dimensional super Yang--Mills tree amplitude, while the type IIA amplitude has additional pieces that cannot be expressed in that manner. We evaluate the coefficients of terms in the analytic part of the low energy expansion of the amplitude, which correspond to a series of terms in an effective action of the schematic form D^{2k}R^5 for 0le k le 5 (where R is the Riemann curvature). Comparison with earlier analyses of the tree amplitudes and of the four-particle one-loop amplitude leads to an interesting extension of the action of SL(2,Z) S-duality on the moduli-dependent coefficients in the type IIB theory. We also investigate closed-string five-particle amplitudes that violate conservation of the U(1) R-symmetry charge -- processes that are forbidden in supergravity. The coefficients of their low energy expansion are shown to agree with S-duality systematics. A less detailed analysis is also given of the six-point function, resulting in the vanishing of the analytic parts of the R^6 and D^4 R^6 interactions in the ten-dimensional effective action, but not in lower dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3534

zbMATH Keywords

string dualitysuperspacessuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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