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All tree level scattering amplitudes in Chern-Simons theories with fundamental matter

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-10-17 v2

Abstract

We show that Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten (BCFW) recursion relations can be used to compute all tree level scattering amplitudes in terms of 222\rightarrow2 scattering amplitude in U(N)U(N) N=2{\mathcal N}=2 Chern-Simons (CS) theory coupled to matter in fundamental representation. As a byproduct, we also obtain a recursion relation for the CS theory coupled to regular fermions, even though in this case standard BCFW deformations do not have a good asymptotic behaviour. Moreover at large NN, 222\rightarrow 2 scattering can be computed exactly to all orders in 't Hooft coupling as was done in earlier works by some of the authors. In particular, for N=2{\mathcal N}=2 theory, it was shown that 222\rightarrow 2 scattering is tree level exact to all orders except in the anyonic channel arXiv:1505.06571, where it gets renormalized by a simple function of 't Hooft coupling. This suggests that it may be possible to compute the all loop exact result for arbitrary higher point scattering amplitudes at large NN.

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@article{arxiv.1710.04227,
  title  = {All tree level scattering amplitudes in Chern-Simons theories with fundamental matter},
  author = {Karthik Inbasekar and Sachin Jain and Pranjal Nayak and V. Umesh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04227},
  year   = {2018}
}

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RevTEX 4.1, 5 pages+6 Appendices, 7 figures; V2 Published version