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Chiral Closed strings: Four massless states scattering amplitude

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-02-01 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We compute the scattering amplitudes of four massless states for chiral (closed) bosonic and type II superstrings using the Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLTKLT) factorization method. The amplitude in the chiral bosonic case is identical to a field theory amplitude corresponding to the spin-22 tachyon, massless gravitational sector and massive spin-2 tardyon states of the spectrum. Chiral type II superstrings amplitude only possess poles associated with the massless gravitational sector. We briefly discuss the extension of the calculation to heterotic superstrings.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02052,
  title  = {Chiral Closed strings: Four massless states scattering amplitude},
  author = {Marcelo M. Leite and Warren Siegel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02052},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

30 pages, typos fixed, the numbering of the equations is slightly different from the corrected version accepted in JHEP due to different macros Latex packages

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