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RNS derivation of N-point disk amplitudes from the revisited S-matrix approach

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v1

Abstract

In the past year, in arXiv:1208.6066 we proposed a revisited S-matrix approach to efficiently find the bosonic terms of the open superstring low energy effective lagrangian (OSLEEL). This approach allows to compute the αN{\alpha'}^N terms of the OSLEEL using open superstring nn-point amplitudes in which nn is very much lower than (N+2)(N+2) (which is the order of the required amplitude to obtain those αN{\alpha'}^N terms by means of the conventional S-matrix approach). In this work we use our revisited S-matrix approach to examine the structure of the scattering amplitudes, arriving at a closed form for them. This is a RNS derivation of the formula first found by Mafra, Schlotterer and Stieberger in arXiv:1106.2645, using the Pure Spinor formalism. We have succeeded doing this for the 5, 6 and 7-point amplitudes. In order to achieve these results we have done a careful analysis of the kinematical structure of the amplitudes, finding as a by-product a purely kinematical derivation of the BCJ relations (for N=4, 5, 6 and 7). Also, following the spirit of the revisited S-matrix approach, we have found the α\alpha' expansions for these amplitudes up to α6{\alpha'}^6 order in some cases, by only using the well known open superstring 4-point amplitude, cyclic symmetry and tree level unitarity: we have not needed to compute any numerical series or any integral involving polylogarithms, at any moment.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5942,
  title  = {RNS derivation of N-point disk amplitudes from the revisited S-matrix approach},
  author = {Luiz Antonio Barreiro and Ricardo Medina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5942},
  year   = {2015}
}

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77 pages, 3 figures