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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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Zhu-Jun Zheng , Jun-Bao Wu , Chuan-Jie Zhu

We review the structure of gauge theory scattering amplitudes at tree level and describe how a compact expression can be found which encodes all the tree-level amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 theory. The expressions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Drummond

We compute the polylogarithmic parts of the two-loop four and five-graviton amplitudes where the external helicities are positive and express these in a simple compact analytic form. We use these to extract the $\ln(\mu^2)$ terms from both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 David C. Dunbar , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

In this paper we first address four point functions of string amplitudes in both type IIA and IIB string theories. Making use of non-BPS scattering amplitudes, we explore not only several Bianchi identities that hold in both transverse and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-15 Ehsan Hatefi , Petr Vasko

The Type II Superstring amplitude to 1-loop order is given by an integral of $\vartheta$-functions over the moduli space of tori, which diverges for real momenta. We construct the analytic continuation which renders this amplitude well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Eric D'Hoker , D. H. Phong

One of the many remarkable features of MHV scattering amplitudes is their conjectured equality to lightlike polygon Wilson loops, which apparently holds at all orders in perturbation theory as well as non-perturbatively. This duality is…

Using the pure spinor formalism we prove identities which relate the tree-level, one-loop and two-loop kinematic factors for massless four-point amplitudes. From these identities it follows that the complete supersymmetric one- and two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Carlos R. Mafra

In these proceedings, the multiloop amplitude prescription using the super-Poincare invariant pure spinor formalism for the superstring is reviewed. Unlike the RNS prescription, there is no sum over spin structures and surface terms coming…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Nathan Berkovits

The monodromy relations in string theory provide a powerful and elegant formalism to understand some of the deepest properties of tree-level field theory amplitudes, like the color-kinematics duality. This duality has been instrumental in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-24 Piotr Tourkine , Pierre Vanhove

We derive an ABDK-like relation between the one- and two-loop four-graviton amplitudes in N=8 supergravity. Specifically we show that the infrared divergent part of the two-loop amplitude is one-half the square of the one-loop amplitude,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephen G. Naculich , Horatiu Nastase , Howard J. Schnitzer

We compute one-loop threshold corrections to R^4 terms in N= 5,6 supergravity vacua of Type II superstrings. We then discuss non-perturbative corrections generated by asymmetric D-brane instantons. Finally we derive generating functions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-25 Massimo Bianchi

Loop amplitudes in string theories reduce to those of gauge theories and (super)gravity in their worldline description as the inverse string tension $\alpha'$ tends to zero. The appearance of reducible diagrams in these $\alpha' \rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Filippo Maria Balli , Alex Edison , Oliver Schlotterer

We study certain four-graviton amplitudes in exceptional field theory in dimensions $D\geq 4$ up to two loops. As the formulation is manifestly invariant under the U-duality group $E_{11-D}(\mathbb{Z})$, our resulting expressions can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-11 Guillaume Bossard , Axel Kleinschmidt

We consider the one-loop five-graviton amplitude in type II string theory calculated in the light-cone gauge. Although it is not possible to explicitly evaluate the integrals over the positions of the vertex operators, a low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-01 David M. Richards

We present a prescription for computing the tree-level two-point amplitude of closed strings in the pure spinor superstring formalism, thereby completing the analysis of such superstring amplitudes. The construction relies on fixing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Sitender Pratap Kashyap

We evaluate in great detail one-loop four-graviton field theory amplitudes in pure N=4 D=4 supergravity. The expressions are obtained by taking the field theory limits of (4,0) and (2,2) space-time supersymmetric string theory models. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Piotr Tourkine , Pierre Vanhove

We provide a prescription for computing two-point tree amplitudes in the pure spinor formalism that are finite and agree with the corresponding expression in the field theories. In [arXiv:1906.06051v1-arXiv:1909.03672v3], same results were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Sitender Pratap Kashyap

On-shell superspace techniques are used to quantify R-symmetry violation in type IIB superstring theory amplitudes in a flat background in ten dimensions. This shows the existence of a particularly simple class of non-vanishing amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Rutger H. Boels

At tree-level, gravity amplitudes are obtainable directly from gauge theory amplitudes via the Kawai, Lewellen and Tye closed-open string relations. We explain how the unitarity method allows us to use these relations to obtain coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Zvi Bern , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar

We compute the massless five-point amplitude of open superstrings using the non-minimal pure spinor formalism and obtain a simple kinematic factor in pure spinor superspace, which can be viewed as the natural extension of the kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-13 Carlos R. Mafra , Christian Stahn