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Scattering on self-dual Taub-NUT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-11-12 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We derive exact solutions of massless free field equations and tree-level two-point amplitudes up to spin 2 on self-dual Taub-NUT space-time, as well as on its single copy, the self-dual dyon. We use Killing spinors to build analogues of momentum eigenstates, finding that, in the spirit of color-kinematics duality, those for the self-dual dyon lift directly to provide states on the self-dual Taub-NUT background if one replaces charge with energy. We discover that they are forced to have faster growth at infinity than in flat space due to the topological non-triviality of these backgrounds. The amplitudes for massless scalars and spinning particles in the (++)(+\,+) and (+)(+\,-) helicity configurations vanish for generic kinematics as a consequence of the integrability of the self-dual sector. The ()(-\,-) amplitudes are non-vanishing and we compute them exactly in the backgrounds, which are treated non-perturbatively. It is explained how spin is easily introduced via a Newman-Janis imaginary shift along the spin-vector leading directly to the additional well-known exponential factor in the dot product of the spin with the momenta. We also observe a double copy relation between the gluon amplitude on a self-dual dyon and graviton amplitude on a self-dual Taub-NUT space-time.

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@article{arxiv.2309.03834,
  title  = {Scattering on self-dual Taub-NUT},
  author = {Tim Adamo and Giuseppe Bogna and Lionel Mason and Atul Sharma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.03834},
  year   = {2024}
}

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