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Froissart bound for/from CFT Mellin amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-07-01 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We derive bounds analogous to the Froissart bound for the absorptive part of CFTd_d Mellin amplitudes. Invoking the AdS/CFT correspondence, these amplitudes correspond to scattering in AdSd+1_{d+1}. We can take a flat space limit of the corresponding bound. We find the standard Froissart-Martin bound, including the coefficient in front for d+1=4d+1=4 being π/μ2\pi/\mu^2, μ\mu being the mass of the lightest exchange. For d>4d>4, the form is different. We show that while for CFTd6CFT_{d\leq 6}, the number of subtractions needed to write a dispersion relation for the Mellin amplitude is equal to 2, for CFTd>6CFT_{d>6} the number of subtractions needed is greater than 2 and goes to infinity as dd goes to infinity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1911.05974,
  title  = {Froissart bound for/from CFT Mellin amplitudes},
  author = {Parthiv Haldar and Aninda Sinha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.05974},
  year   = {2020}
}

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v4:31 pages, 1 figure, typos fixed and more clarifications added, prepared for submission to Scipost

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