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Starting with Witten's twistor string, chiral string theories have emerged that describe field theory amplitudes without the towers of massive states of conventional strings. These models are known as ambitwistor strings due to their target…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-08 Yvonne Geyer , Lionel Mason

At the tree level, the scattering processes involving open and closed strings are described by a disk world-sheet with vertex operator insertions at the boundary and in the bulk. Such amplitudes can be decomposed as certain linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

Open string amplitudes at tree level have been studied for over fifty years, but there is no known analytic form for general $n$-point amplitudes, and their conventional representation in terms of worldsheet integrals does not make many of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-23 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Carolina Figueiredo , Grant N. Remmen

We give a comprehensive review of recent developments on using the pure spinor formalism to compute massless superstring scattering amplitudes at tree level. The main results of the pure spinor computations are placed into the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

In this work, we argue that the $\alpha'\to 0$ limit of closed string theory scattering amplitudes is a tropical limit. The motivation is to develop a technology to systematize the extraction of Feynman graphs from string theory amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-10 Piotr Tourkine

In this thesis, we study the properties of String theory amplitudes within the framework of Intersection Theory (IT) for twisted (co)homology, which, as recently proposed, offered a novel approach to analyze relations between scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-18 Anthony Massidda

Exact solutions of the string equations of motion in a specific Lorentzian wormhole background are obtained. These include both closed and open string configurations. Perturbations about some of these configurations are investigated using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Sayan Kar

We study the soft behavior of string scattering amplitudes at three level with massless and massive external insertions, relying on different techniques to compute 4-points amplitudes respectively with open or closed strings.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-15 Massimo Bianchi , Andrea L. Guerrieri

We study various properties of closed relativistic strings. In particular, we characterize their closure under uniform convergence, extending a previous result by Y. Brenier on graph-like unbounded strings, and we discuss some related…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-31 G. Bellettini , J. Hoppe , M. Novaga , G. Orlandi

The analytic contribution to the low energy expansion of Type II string amplitudes at genus-one is a power series in space-time derivatives with coefficients that are determined by integrals of modular functions over the complex structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Eric D'Hoker , Michael B. Green , Pierre Vanhove

Superstring scattering from orientifold planes requires considering string amplitudes on world-sheets with crosscaps with the lowest order case (in string coupling constant) having the topology of the real projective plane. While amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-20 Andreas Bischof , Stephan Stieberger

Tree-level scattering amplitudes in massless theories not only exhibit a simplicity entirely unexpected from Feynman diagrams, but also an underlying structure remarkably reminiscent of worldsheet theory correlators. These features can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-17 Yvonne Geyer

A simple recursive expansion algorithm for the integrals of tree level superstring five point amplitudes in a flat background is given which reduces the expansion to simple symbol(ic) manipulations. This approach can be used for instance to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Rutger H. Boels

This paper investigates the relationships between closed and mixed string amplitudes at the tree level in string theory. Through the analytic continuation of complex variables, we establish a factorization of closed string amplitudes into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 Aphiwat Yuenyong , Pongwit Srisangyingcharoen

We derive a general expression for on-shell recursion relations of closed string tree-level amplitudes. Starting with the string amplitudes written in the form of the Koba-Nielsen integral, we apply the BCFW shift to deform them. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Pongwit Srisangyingcharoen , Aphiwat Yuenyong

We provide new methods to straightforwardly obtain compact and analytic expressions for epsilon-expansions of functions appearing in both field and string theory amplitudes. An algebraic method is presented to explicitly solve for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Georg Puhlfuerst , Stephan Stieberger

We propose using the general structure and properties of conformal field theory amplitudes, in particular those defined on surfaces with boundaries, to explore effective string theory amplitudes for some hadronic processes. Two examples are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 David C. Lewellen

In this letter, we provide evidence for universality in the low-energy expansion of tree-level string interactions. More precisely, in the alpha'-expansion of tree-level scattering amplitudes, we conjecture that the leading transcendental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-03 Yu-tin Huang , Oliver Schlotterer , Congkao Wen

We reformulate the monodromy relations of open-string scattering amplitudes as boundary terms of twisted homologies on the configuration spaces of Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. This allows us to write explicit linear relations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Eduardo Casali , Sebastian Mizera , Piotr Tourkine

In these proceedings, we discuss the recent approach of Ref. [1] for the construction of compact Ans\"atze for scattering amplitudes. The method builds powerful constraints on the analytic structure of the rational functions in amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-22 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Ben Page