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Two-Loop Superstrings in Hyperelliptic Language III: the Four-Particle Amplitude

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v2

Abstract

We compute explicitly the four-particle amplitude in superstring theories by using the hyperelliptic language and the newly obtained chiral measure of D'Hoker and Phong. Although the algebra of the intermediate steps is a little bit involved, we obtain a quite simple expression for the four-particle amplitude. As expected, the integrand is independent of all the insertion points. As an application of the obtained result, we show that the perturbative correction to the R4R^4 term in type II superstring theories is vanishing point-wise in (even) moduli space at two loops.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0212219,
  title  = {Two-Loop Superstrings in Hyperelliptic Language III: the Four-Particle Amplitude},
  author = {Zhu-Jun Zheng and Jun-Bao Wu and Chuan-Jie Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0212219},
  year   = {2010}
}

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v1, LaTex file, 33 pages; v2, 34 pages, add references and minor corrections