scholarly journals Overview of High Energy String Scattering Amplitudes and Symmetries of String Theory

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen-Chi Lee ◽  
Yi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Recurrence Relations ◽  
Dynamical Symmetry ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Fixed Angle ◽  
Linear Relations ◽  
Arbitrary Mass ◽  
String Amplitudes

In this paper, we studied symmetries of string scattering amplitudes in the high energy limits of both the fixed angle or Gross regime (GR) and the fixed momentum transfer or Regge regime (RR). We calculated high energy string scattering amplitudes (SSA) at arbitrary mass levels for both regimes. We discovered the infinite linear relations among fixed angle string amplitudes and the ifinite recurrence relations among Regge string amplitudes. The linear relations we obtained in the GR corrected the saddle point calculations by Gross, Gross and Mende. In addition, for the high energy closed string scatterings, our results differ from theirs by an oscillating prefactor which was crucial to recover the KLT relation valid for all energies. We showed that all the high energy string amplitudes can be solved using the linear or recurrence relations, so that all the string amplitudes can be expressed in terms of a single string amplitude. We further found that, at each mass level, the ratios among the fixed angle amplitudes can be extracted from the Regge string scattering amplitudes. Finally, we reviewed the recent developments on the discovery of infinite number of recurrence relations valid for all energies among Lauricella SSA. The symmetries or relations among SSA at various limits obtained previously can be exactly reproduced. It leads us to argue that the known S L ( K + 3 , C ) dynamical symmetry of the Lauricella function may be crucial to probe spacetime symmetry of string theory.

scholarly journals Recent Developments of the Lauricella String Scattering Amplitudes and Their Exact SL(K + 3,C) Symmetry

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng-Hong Lai ◽  
Jen-Chi Lee ◽  
Yi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Recurrence Relations ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Infinite Dimensional ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Zero Norm ◽  
Nonrelativistic Scattering ◽  
Infinite Dimensional Representation

In this review, we propose a new perspective to demonstrate the Gross conjecture regarding the high-energy symmetry of string theory. We review the construction of the exact string scattering amplitudes (SSAs) of three tachyons and one arbitrary string state, or the Lauricella SSA (LSSA), in the 26D open bosonic string theory. These LSSAs form an infinite dimensional representation of the SL(K+3,C) group. Moreover, we show that the SL(K+3,C) group can be used to solve all the LSSAs and express them in terms of one amplitude. As an application in the hard scattering limit, the LSSA can be used to directly prove the Gross conjecture, which was previously corrected and proved by the method of the decoupling of zero norm states (ZNS). Finally, the exact LSSA can be used to rederive the recurrence relations of SSA in the Regge scattering limit with associated SL(5,C) symmetry and the extended recurrence relations (including the mass and spin dependent string BCJ relations) in the nonrelativistic scattering limit with the associated SL(4,C) symmetry discovered recently.

scholarly journals KLT factorization of winding string amplitudes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaume Gomis ◽  
Ziqi Yan ◽  
Matthew Yu
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
Toroidal Compactifications ◽  
Quantum Numbers ◽  
String Amplitudes

Abstract We uncover a Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT)-type factorization of closed string amplitudes into open string amplitudes for closed string states carrying winding and momentum in toroidal compactifications. The winding and momentum closed string quantum numbers map respectively to the integer and fractional winding quantum numbers of open strings ending on a D-brane array localized in the compactified directions. The closed string amplitudes factorize into products of open string scattering amplitudes with the open strings ending on a D-brane configuration determined by closed string data.

scholarly journals DUALITY OF STRING AMPLITUDES IN A CURVED BACKGROUND

1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (30) ◽  
pp. 5409-5440
Author(s):  
MÅNS HENNINGSON
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Target Space ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Group Manifold ◽  
String Amplitudes ◽  
Theory Calculation ◽  
The Relationship

We initiate a program to study the relationship between the target space, the spectrum and the scattering amplitudes in string theory. We consider scattering amplitudes following from string theory and quantum field theory on a curved target space, which is taken to be the SU(2) group manifold, with special attention given to the duality between contributions from different channels. We give a simple example of the equivalence between amplitudes coming from string theory and quantum field theory, and compute the general form of a four-scalar field-theoretical amplitude. The corresponding string theory calculation is performed for a special case, and we discuss how more general string theory amplitudes could be evaluated.

STRING THEORY EFFECTIVE ACTION: STRING LOOP CORRECTIONS

1988 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 365-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. TSEYTLIN
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Sigma Model ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Vertex Operators ◽  
S Matrix ◽  
String Loop ◽  
String Amplitudes ◽  
Loop Amplitudes

We discuss the general ideology of the computation of string loop corrections to the effective action for the massless modes of the string. Both the S-matrix and the sigma-model approaches are presented. It is emphasized that the effective action is a more general and better defined object than the S-matrix. In particular, it is finite in spite of modular infinities that may be present in loop amplitudes computed near a “wrong” vacuum. The case of the disc topology in the open-closed string theory is treated in some detail. Some issues concerning the soft dilaton vertex operators related to the infinities of the string amplitudes are disucssed.

scholarly journals Extracting bigravity from string theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Lüst ◽  
Chrysoula Markou ◽  
Pouria Mazloumi ◽  
Stephan Stieberger
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Bimetric Theory ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Massive Spin ◽  
Numerical Coefficient

Abstract The origin of the graviton from string theory is well understood: it corresponds to a massless state in closed string spectra, whose low-energy effective action, as extracted from string scattering amplitudes, is that of Einstein-Hilbert. In this work, we explore the possibility of such a string-theoretic emergence of ghost-free bimetric theory, a recently proposed theory that involves two dynamical metrics, that around particular backgrounds propagates the graviton and a massive spin-2 field, which has been argued to be a viable dark matter candidate. By choosing to identify the latter with a massive spin-2 state of open string spectra, we compute tree-level three-point string scattering amplitudes that describe interactions of the massive spin-2 with itself and with the graviton. With the mass of the external legs depending on the string scale, we discover that extracting the corresponding low-energy effective actions in four spacetime dimensions is a subtle but consistent process and proceed to appropriately compare them with bimetric theory. Our findings consist in establishing that string and bimetric theory provide to lowest order the same set of two-derivative terms describing the interactions of the massive spin-2 with itself and with the graviton, albeit up to numerical coefficient discrepancies, a fact that we analyze and interpret. We conclude with a mention of future investigations.

scholarly journals Gravitational Scattering Amplitudes and Closed String Field Theory in the Proper-Time Gauge

2018 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 07004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taejin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
String Field Theory ◽  
Fock Space ◽  
Proper Time ◽  
Path Integrals ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Quantized String

We construct a covariant closed string field theory by extending recent works on the covariant open string field theory in the proper-time gauge. Rewriting the string scattering amplitudes generated by the closed string field theory in terms of the Polyakov string path integrals, we identify the Fock space representations of the closed string vertices. We show that the Fock space representations of the closed string field theory may be completely factorized into those of the open string field theory. It implies that the well known Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) relations of the first quantized string theory may be promoted to the second quantized closed string theory. We explicitly calculate the scattering amplitudes of three gravitons by using the closed string field theory in the proper-time gauge.

scholarly journals THE STOYANOVSKY–RIBAULT–TESCHNER MAP AND STRING SCATTERING AMPLITUDES

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (19n20) ◽  
pp. 4003-4034 ◽  
Author(s):  
GASTON GIRIBET ◽  
YU NAKAYAMA
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Correlation Functions ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Liouville Theory ◽  
Type Reduction ◽  
Point Correlation ◽  
Liouville Field Theory

Recently, Ribault and Teschner pointed out the existence of a one-to-one correspondence between N-point correlation functions for the SL (2,ℂ)k/ SU (2) WZNW model on the sphere and certain set of 2N-2-point correlation functions in Liouville field theory. This result is based on a seminal work by Stoyanovsky. Here, we discuss the implications of this correspondence focusing on its application to string theory on curved backgrounds. For instance, we analyze how the divergences corresponding to worldsheet instantons in AdS3 can be understood as arising from the insertion of the dual screening operator in the Liouville theory side. We also study the pole structure of N-point functions in the 2D Euclidean black hole and its holographic meaning in terms of the Little String Theory. This enables us to interpret the correspondence between CFT's as encoding a LSZ-type reduction procedure. Furthermore, we discuss the scattering amplitudes violating the winding number conservation in those backgrounds and provide a formula connecting such amplitudes with observables in Liouville field theory. Finally, we study the WZNW correlation functions in the limit k → 0 and show that, at the point k = 0, the Stoyanovsky–Ribault–Teschner dictionary turns out to be in agreement with the FZZ conjecture at a particular point of the space of parameters where the Liouville central charge becomes cL = -2. This result makes contact with recent studies on the dynamical tachyon condensation in closed string theory.

GRAVITON AMPLITUDES, EFFECTIVE ACTION AND STRING GENERATING FUNCTIONAL ON THE DISC

1989 ◽  
Vol 04 (13) ◽  
pp. 3269-3304 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. TSEYTLIN
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
String Theory ◽  
General Expression ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Generating Functional ◽  
S Matrix ◽  
String Amplitudes

We discuss some issues related to computation and renormalization of closed string amplitudes and effective action on the disc. The general expression for the O (ln ε) term in the string theory and effective field theory generating functionals for the S matrix is found. It is emphasized that in order to establish the correspondence between the string theory and the effective field theory it is necessary to compare the total coefficients of all (“local” plus “modular” and “N-dependent” plus “N-independent”) infinities present in the amplitudes. The regularized expression for the N=3 graviton amplitude on the disc is explicitly computed and it is suggested that a proper regularization is a key to a resolution of a paradox discussed previously in the literature.

scholarly journals Notes on high-energy limit of bosonic closed string scattering amplitudes

2006 ◽  
Vol 749 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 280-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan-Tsung Chan ◽  
Jen-Chi Lee ◽  
Yi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Energy Limit ◽  
High Energy Limit
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