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Uniqueness and Analytic Structures of Bosonic String Effective Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-07-02 v1

Abstract

We revisit the zero-transcendentality sector of bosonic string effective amplitudes with spin-1 external states, conjectured to correspond to a mass-deformed (DF)2(DF)^2 theory, known as the (DF)2+YM(DF)^2{+}\text{YM} theory. Imposing gauge invariance, locality, and cyclicity under minimal assumptions uniquely fixes a set of dimension-raising operators and leads to a recursive construction of amplitudes from Yang-Mills amplitudes in the α0\alpha'{\to}0 limit. At finite α\alpha', certain derivative operators dressed with gauge invariant and α\alpha'-dependent factors, what we call inverse operators\textit{inverse operators}, reconstruct the full bosonic string effective amplitudes, yielding compact expressions that universally factorize into tachyon-pole coefficients times Yang-Mills-Scalar amplitudes. This structure holds at arbitrary multiplicity and also extends to the amplitudes of the pure (DF)2(DF)^2, (DF)2+ϕ3(DF)^2{+}\phi^{3} and (DF)2+YM+ϕ3(DF)^2{+}\text{YM}{+}\phi^{3} theories.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.01790,
  title  = {Uniqueness and Analytic Structures of Bosonic String Effective Amplitudes},
  author = {Qu Cao and Fan Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01790},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

12 pages, 5 figures and one ancillary file