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On-Shell Recursion Relations for Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-07 v2

Abstract

We derive on-shell recursion relations for nonrelativistic effective field theories (EFTs) with enhanced soft limits. The recursion relations are illustrated through analytic calculation of tree-level scattering amplitudes in theories with a complex Schr\"odinger-type field, real scalar with linear dispersion relation, and real scalar with Lifshitz-type dispersion relation. Our results show that the landscape of gapless nonrelativistic EFTs with local SS-matrix can be constrained by soft theorems and the consistency of the low-energy SS-matrix similarly to massless relativistic EFTs.

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@article{arxiv.2108.03189,
  title  = {On-Shell Recursion Relations for Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theories},
  author = {Martin A. Mojahed and Tomas Brauner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03189},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

7 pages; v2: matches version published in PLB plus an additional reference

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