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The pure spinor superparticle and 10D super-Yang-Mills amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-11 v2

Abstract

We present a prescription for computing tree-level scattering amplitudes in 10D super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory using the pure spinor worldline formalism. The pure spinor formalism has proven to be a powerful framework for studying supersymmetric field theories, providing manifestly covariant and BRST-invariant formulations of amplitudes. By incorporating the worldline approach, we construct a first-quantized representation of SYM amplitudes in 10D, where interactions are encoded through the insertion of vertex operators along the particle's trajectory. We explicitly compute the N-point function, demonstrating an agreement with the limit α0\alpha' \to 0 of open superstring amplitudes and confirming that the kinematic numerators satisfy the expected BRST relations. Our results establish the pure spinor worldline formalism as a tool for studying scattering amplitudes and suggest further applications to 11D supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.2508.19601,
  title  = {The pure spinor superparticle and 10D super-Yang-Mills amplitudes},
  author = {Max Guillen and Marcelo dos Santos and Eggon Viana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.19601},
  year   = {2025}
}

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41 pages. Fixed typos. Published version