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Triple crossing positivity bounds for multi-field theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-02-09 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We develop a formalism to extract triple crossing symmetric positivity bounds for effective field theories with multiple degrees of freedom, by making use of susu symmetric dispersion relations supplemented with positivity of the partial waves, stst null constraints and the generalized optical theorem. This generalizes the convex cone approach to constrain the s2s^2 coefficient space to higher orders. Optimal positive bounds can be extracted by semi-definite programs with a continuous decision variable, compared with linear programs for the case of a single field. As an example, we explicitly compute the positivity constraints on bi-scalar theories, and find all the Wilson coefficients can be constrained in a finite region, including the coefficients with odd powers of ss, which are absent in the single scalar case.

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@article{arxiv.2111.01169,
  title  = {Triple crossing positivity bounds for multi-field theories},
  author = {Zong-Zhe Du and Cen Zhang and Shuang-Yong Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.01169},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

28 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; corrected two typos in references