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String amplitudes from field-theory amplitudes and vice versa

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-06-24 v3

Abstract

We present an integration-by-parts reduction of any massless tree-level string correlator to an equivalence class of logarithmic functions, which can be used to define a field-theory amplitude via a Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY) formula. The string amplitude is then shown to be the double copy of the field-theory one and a special disk/sphere integral. The construction is generic as it applies to any correlator that is a rational function of correct SL(2) weight. By applying the reduction to open bosonic/heterotic strings, we get a closed-form CHY integrand for the (DF)2+YM+ϕ3(DF)^2+\text{YM}+\phi^3 theory.

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@article{arxiv.1812.03369,
  title  = {String amplitudes from field-theory amplitudes and vice versa},
  author = {Song He and Fei Teng and Yong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03369},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

11 pages, 2 figures; v2: more references added and several typos corrected; v3: matching the journal version

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