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Carrollian Amplitudes from Strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-03-29 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Carrollian holography is supposed to describe gravity in four-dimensional asymptotically flat space-time by the three-dimensional Carrollian CFT living at null infinity. We transform superstring scattering amplitudes into the correlation functions of primary fields of Carrollian CFT depending on the three-dimensional coordinates of the celestial sphere and a retarded time coordinate. The power series in the inverse string tension is converted to a whole tower of both UV and IR finite descendants of the underlying field-theoretical Carrollian amplitude. We focus on four-point amplitudes involving gauge bosons and gravitons in type I open superstring theory and in closed heterotic superstring theory at the tree-level. We also discuss the limit of infinite retarded time coordinates, where the string world-sheet becomes celestial.

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@article{arxiv.2402.14062,
  title  = {Carrollian Amplitudes from Strings},
  author = {Stephan Stieberger and Tomasz R. Taylor and Bin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.14062},
  year   = {2024}
}

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21 pages, LaTeX; v2: final version to appear in JHEP

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