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Spinning Partial Waves for Scattering Amplitudes in $d$ Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Partial wave decomposition is one of the main tools within the modern S-matrix studies. We present a method to compute partial waves for 222\to2 scattering of spinning particles in arbitrary spacetime dimension. We identify partial waves as matrix elements of the rotation group with definite covariance properties under a subgroup. This allows to use a variety of techniques from harmonic analysis in order to construct a novel algebra of weight-shifting operators. All spinning partial waves are generated by the action of these operators on a set of known scalar seeds. The text is accompanied by a {\it Mathematica} notebook to automatically generate partial waves. These results pave the way to a systematic studies of spinning S-matrix bootstrap and positivity bounds.

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@article{arxiv.2305.18523,
  title  = {Spinning Partial Waves for Scattering Amplitudes in $d$ Dimensions},
  author = {Ilija Buric and Francesco Russo and Alessandro Vichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.18523},
  year   = {2023}
}

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v2: minor edits, version published on JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-28T10:49:52.120Z