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The physical principles of causality and unitarity put strong constraints on the analytic structure of the flat-space S-matrix. In particular, these principles give rise to the Steinmann relations, which require that the double…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Paolo Benincasa , Andrew J. McLeod , Cristian Vergu

A generalization of the S-parameter retrieval method for finite three-dimensional inhomogeneous objects under arbitrary illumination and observation conditions is presented. The effective permittivity of such objects may be rigorously…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-02-12 Shreyas B. Raghunathan , Neil V. Budko

We consider the scattering matrices of massive quantum field theories with no bound states and a global $O(N)$ symmetry in two spacetime dimensions. In particular we explore the space of two-to-two S-matrices of particles of mass $m$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Lucía Córdova , Yifei He , Martin Kruczenski , Pedro Vieira

The general structure of infrared divergences in the scattering of massive particles is captured by the soft anomalous dimension matrix. The latter can be computed from a correlation function of multiple Wilson lines. The state-of-the-art…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Johannes M. Henn , Calum Milloy , Kai Yan

As a first application of our renormalisation group approach to non-local matrix models [hep-th/0305066], we prove (super-)renormalisability of Euclidean two-dimensional noncommutative \phi^4-theory. It is widely believed that this model is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Harald Grosse , Raimar Wulkenhaar

We explore a formulation of the S-matrix in terms of the path integral with specified asymptotic data, as originally proposed by Arefeva, Faddeev, and Slavnov. In the tree approximation the S-matrix is equal to the exponential of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Seolhwa Kim , Per Kraus , Ruben Monten , Richard M. Myers

The success of the S-matrix in quantum field theory in Minkowski spacetime naturally demands the extension of the construction of the S-matrix in a general curved spacetime in a covariant manner. However, it is well-known that a global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-29 Susobhan Mandal , Subhashish Banerjee

We show an explicit connection between the solution to the equations of motion in the Gaussian functional approximation and the minimum of the (Gaussian) effective potential/action of the linear $\Sigma$ model, as well as with the N/D…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Issei Nakamura , V. Dmitrasinovic

In this work we apply the S-matrix bootstrap maximization program to the 2d bosonic O(N) integrable model which has N species of scalar particles of mass m and no bound states. Since in previous studies theories were defined by maximizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Yifei He , Andrew Irrgang , Martin Kruczenski

This work extends previous results on the inverse scattering problem within the framework of Marchenko theory (fixed-$l$ inversion). In particular, I approximate an $n$-channel $S$-matrix as a function of the first-channel momentum $q$ by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 N. A. Khokhlov

We construct a relativistic scattering theory based on a q deformation and large string tension limit of the magnon S-matrix of the string world sheet theory in AdS_5 x S^5. The S-matrix falls naturally into a previously studied class…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-18 Ben Hoare , Timothy J. Hollowood , J. Luis Miramontes

The perturbative framework of the space-time non-commutative real scalar field theory is formulated, based on the unitary S-matrix. Unitarity of the S-matrix is explicitly checked order by order using the Heisenberg picture of Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Chaiho Rim , Yunseok Seo , Jae Hyung Yee

We reframe linear dimensionality reduction as a problem of Bayesian inference on matrix manifolds. This natural paradigm extends the Bayesian framework to dimensionality reduction tasks in higher dimensions with simpler models at greater…

Computation · Statistics 2016-06-15 Andrew Holbrook , Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes , Babak Shahbaba

We complement our earlier position-space exploration of a recently proposed S-matrix for transplanckian scattering by a momentum-space analysis. As in the previous paper, we restrict ourselves to the case of axisymmetric collisions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-10 G. Veneziano , J. Wosiek

We formulate an equivalence between the 2-dim $\sigma$-model spectrum expanded on a non-trivial massive vacuum and a classical particle Hamiltonian with variable mass and potential. By considering methods of analytic Galoisian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 Dimitrios Giataganas

We introduce a set of consistency conditions on the S-matrix of theories of massless particles of arbitrary spin in four-dimensional Minkowski space-time. We find that in most cases the constraints, derived from the conditions, can only be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-01-17 Paolo Benincasa , Freddy Cachazo

Dimensionally-regulated Feynman integrals are a cornerstone of all perturbative computations in quantum field theory. They are known to exhibit a rich mathematical structure, which has led to the development of powerful new techniques for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr

The standard unitarity-cut method is applied to several massive two-dimensional models, including the world-sheet AdS$_5\times S^5$ superstring, to compute $2\to 2$ scattering S-matrices at one loop from tree level amplitudes. Evidence is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-03 Valentina Forini , Lorenzo Bianchi , Ben Hoare

For conformally invariant gravity theories defined on Riemannian spacetime and having the Schwarzschild--de-Sitter (SdS) metric as a solution in the Einstein gauge, we consider whether one may conformally rescale this solution to obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby

We consider the three-particle scattering S-matrix for the Landau-Lifshitz model by directly computing the set of the Feynman diagrams up to the second order. We show, following the analogous computations for the non-linear Schr\"{o}dinger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Melikyan , A. Pinzul , V. O. Rivelles , G. Weber