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Hybrid Goldstone Modes from the Double Copy Bootstrap

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-01 v2

Abstract

We perform a systematic classification of scalar field theories whose amplitudes admit a double copy formulation and identify two building blocks at 4-point and 13 at 5-point. Using the 4-point blocks as bootstrap seeds, this naturally leads to a single copy theory that is a gauged NLSM. Moreover, its double copy includes a novel theory that can be written in terms of Lovelock invariants of an induced metric, and includes Dirac-Born-Infeld and the special Galileon in specific limits. The amplitudes of these Goldstone modes have two distinct soft behaviour regimes, corresponding to a hybrid of non-linear symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.2307.13418,
  title  = {Hybrid Goldstone Modes from the Double Copy Bootstrap},
  author = {Yang Li and Diederik Roest and Tonnis ter Veldhuis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13418},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 tables; v2: version to appear in PRL

R2 v1 2026-06-28T11:39:33.701Z