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A simpler prescription for MHV graviton tree amplitudes in superstring theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-06 v2

Abstract

We extend the Berkovits-Maldacena prescription for MHV amplitudes of the open superstring to the closed superstring, showing that in the \alpha'=0 limit it reduces to the result of supergravity found recently by Hodges. We also verify that this prescription calculates the correct superstring tree level MHV amplitude for 4 gravitons including \alpha' corrections.

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@article{arxiv.1308.6456,
  title  = {A simpler prescription for MHV graviton tree amplitudes in superstring theory},
  author = {Tiago Ursulino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6456},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

33 pages, 7 figures; v2: appendix corrected, footnote 14 added, reference 15 upgraded, typos fixed