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New heavenly double copies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-05 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes and classical solutions in Yang-Mills theory, gravity, and related field theories. Previous work has shown that this has an explicit realisation in self-dual YM theory, where the equation of motion can be written in a form that maps directly to Pleba\'nski's heavenly equation for self-dual gravity. The self-dual YM equation involves an area-preserving diffeomorphism algebra, two copies of which appear in the heavenly equation. In this paper, we show that this construction is a special case of a wider family of heavenly-type examples, by (i) performing Moyal deformations, and (ii) replacing the area-preserving diffeomorphisms with a less restricted algebra. As a result, we obtain a double-copy interpretation for hyper-Hermitian manifolds, extending the previously known hyper-K\"ahler case. We also introduce a double-Moyal deformation of the heavenly equation. The examples where the construction of Lax pairs is possible are manifestly consistent with Ward's conjecture, and suggest that the classical integrability of the gravity-type theory may be guaranteed in general by the integrability of at least one of two gauge-theory-type single copies.

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@article{arxiv.2008.09603,
  title  = {New heavenly double copies},
  author = {Erick Chacón and Hugo García-Compeán and Andres Luna and Ricardo Monteiro and Chris D. White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09603},
  year   = {2021}
}

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34 pages, 1 figure

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