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S-matrices from 4d worldvolume

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-12-25 v1

Abstract

We give an example of how conformal field theory methods in worldvolumes of dimension d > 2 could be used to calculate string-like amplitudes. The worldvolume propagator's logarithmic behavior is based on the use of worldvolume superspace (rather than the worldvolume ghost coordinates of a previous paper). Massless states have maximum spin d. Unitarity is not studied. We also touch on some related topics for ordinary spinning strings: calculating closed-string trees in worldsheet superspace, and zeroth-quantization of OSp(1|2) with zero-mode ghosts only.

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@article{arxiv.2012.12938,
  title  = {S-matrices from 4d worldvolume},
  author = {Warren Siegel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12938},
  year   = {2020}
}

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21 pp., lualatex source available @ http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/tex.shtml

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