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Non-analyticity of the $S$-matrix with spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-09-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the SS-matrix of Goldstones in the renormalizable theory of a U(1)U(1) complex scalar at finite charge, i.e. in a state that breaks Lorentz invariance. The theory is weakly coupled so that this SS-matrix exists at all energies. Unlike the Lorentz invariant case, the resulting SS-matrix is not analytic in the exchanged (complexified) four-momentum. The non-analyticities stem from the LSZ reduction formula, as a consequence of the energy-dependent mixing between the radial and Goldstone modes.

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@article{arxiv.2312.08441,
  title  = {Non-analyticity of the $S$-matrix with spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance},
  author = {Paolo Creminelli and Matteo Delladio and Oliver Janssen and Alessandro Longo and Leonardo Senatore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.08441},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

19+11 pages. Version published in J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 201 (2024)