Heterotic and bosonic string amplitudes via field theory

• Previous work has shown that massless tree amplitudes of the type I and IIA/B superstrings can be dramatically simplified by expressing them as double copies between field-theory amplitudes and scalar disk/sphere integrals, the latter containing all the alpha'-corrections. In this work, we pinpoint similar double-copy constructions for the heterotic and bosonic string theories using an alpha'-dependent field theory and the same disk/sphere integrals. Surprisingly, this field theory, built out of dimension-six operators such as (D mu F mu v)(2), has previously appeared in the double-copy construction of conformal supergravity. We elaborate on the alpha' -> infinity limit in this picture and derive new amplitude relations for various gauge-gravity theories from those of the heterotic string.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Subatomär fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Subatomic Physics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Bosonic Strings

Scattering Amplitudes

Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

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