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Hidden Zeros in Exceptional Field Theories from Double Copy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-10-31 v3

Abstract

It was recently discovered by Arkani-Hamed et al and Cao et al that the colour-ordered scattering amplitudes of Tr(Φ3)(\Phi^3), the non-linear sigma model and Yang-Mills-scalar vanish at specific loci. We build on this observation and demonstrate that, beyond colour ordering, scattering amplitudes can display higher-order hidden zeros. A first example are the flavour-paired amplitudes of gravity-coupled scalars, as a double copy of Yang-Mills-scalar. The other two cases are Dirac-Born-Infeld and the special Galileon, which are the natural generalisations of the non-linear sigma model with higher orders of the Adler zero. We demonstrate that the amplitudes of these theories all factorize into lower-point objects in the near-zero limit, and discuss their interpretation. Finally, we comment on the general picture of hidden zeros and prove their relation under the double copy.

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@article{arxiv.2403.12939,
  title  = {Hidden Zeros in Exceptional Field Theories from Double Copy},
  author = {Yang Li and Diederik Roest and Tonnis ter Veldhuis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12939},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure; v2: figure improved and double copy discussion extended; v3: the published version on JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:26:05.043Z