Classification of all 3 particle S-matrices quadratic in photons or gravitons

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)110zbMATH Open1436.83023arXiv2001.07117OpenAlexW3002684342MaRDI QIDQ780783FDOQ780783

Soumangsu Chakraborty, S. Kundu, Shiraz Minwalla, Subham Dutta Chowdhury, Tushar Gopalka, Amiya Mishra

Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Abstract: We explicitly construct every kinematically allowed three particle graviton-graviton-$P$ and photon-photon-$P$ S-matrix in every dimension and for every choice of the little group representation of the massive particle $P$. We also explicitly construct the spacetime Lagrangian that generates each of these couplings. In the case of gravitons we demonstrate that this Lagrangian always involves (derivatives of) two factors of the Riemann tensor, and so is always of fourth or higher order in derivatives. This result verifies one of the assumptions made in the recent preprint cite{Chowdhury:2019kaq} while attempting to establish the rigidity of the Einstein tree level S-matrix within the space of local classical theories coupled to a collection of particles of bounded spin.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07117

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityAdS-CFT correspondencescattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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• Amplitude basis for conformal correlators
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• xTras

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