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Measure for chaotic scattering amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-02-14 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We propose a novel measure of chaotic scattering amplitudes. It takes the form of a log-normal distribution function for the ratios rn=δn/δn+1r_n={\delta_n}/{\delta_{n+1}} of (consecutive) spacings δn\delta_n between two (consecutive) peaks of the scattering amplitude. We show that the same measure applies to the quantum mechanical scattering on a leaky torus as well as to the decay of highly excited string states into two tachyons. Quite remarkably the rnr_n obey the same distribution that governs the non-trivial zeros of Riemann zeta function.

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@article{arxiv.2207.13112,
  title  = {Measure for chaotic scattering amplitudes},
  author = {Massimo Bianchi and Maurizio Firrotta and Jacob Sonnenschein and Dorin Weissman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.13112},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v2: small corrections, references added; v3: minor improvements to match published version

R2 v1 2026-06-25T01:15:07.590Z