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

Abelian Z-theory: NLSM amplitudes and α ′-corrections from the open string
Abelian Z-theory: NLSM amplitudes and α ′-corrections from the open string
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 pre-dictions as a double copy of super-Yang-Mills theory with Z-theory — the collection of putative scalar effective field theories encoding all the α′-expansion of the open super-string. 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 α′ in the abelian Z-theory amplitudes, and through double copy also to Born-Infeld and Volkov-Akulov theories. The amplitude relations due to Kleiss-Kuijf as well as Bern, Johansson and one of the current authors obeyed by Z-theory amplitudes thereby apply to all α′-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 α′.
hep-th, math-ph, math.MP
Carrasco, John Joseph M.
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Mafra, Carlos R.
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Schlotterer, Oliver
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Carrasco, John Joseph M.
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Mafra, Carlos R.
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Schlotterer, Oliver
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Carrasco, John Joseph M., Mafra, Carlos R. and Schlotterer, Oliver (2017) Abelian Z-theory: NLSM amplitudes and α ′-corrections from the open string. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 (6), [093]. (doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2017)093).

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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 pre-dictions as a double copy of super-Yang-Mills theory with Z-theory — the collection of putative scalar effective field theories encoding all the α′-expansion of the open super-string. 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 α′ in the abelian Z-theory amplitudes, and through double copy also to Born-Infeld and Volkov-Akulov theories. The amplitude relations due to Kleiss-Kuijf as well as Bern, Johansson and one of the current authors obeyed by Z-theory amplitudes thereby apply to all α′-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 α′.

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Submitted date: 8 August 2016
Accepted/In Press date: 28 May 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 June 2017
Published date: 19 June 2017
Additional Information: 32 pages
Keywords: hep-th, math-ph, math.MP
Organisations: Mathematical Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 406429
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/406429
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ORCID for Carlos R. Mafra: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9654

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Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:17

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Author: John Joseph M. Carrasco
Author: Carlos R. Mafra ORCID iD
Author: Oliver Schlotterer

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