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Where is M-theory in the space of scattering amplitudes?

Guerrieri, Andrea  
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Murali, Harish
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Penedones, Joao  
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June 13, 2023
Journal of High Energy Physics

We use the S-matrix bootstrap to carve out the space of unitary, analytic, crossing symmetric and supersymmetric graviton scattering amplitudes in nine, ten and eleven dimensions. We extend and improve the numerical methods of our previous work in ten dimensions. A key new tool employed here is unitarity in the celestial sphere. In all dimensions, we find that the minimal allowed value of the Wilson coefficient alpha, controlling the leading correction to maximal supergravity, is very close but not equal to the minimal value realized in Superstring theory or M-theory. This small difference may be related to inelastic effects that are not well described by our numerical extremal amplitudes. Although alpha has a unique value in M-theory, we found no evidence of an upper bound on alpha in 11D.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/JHEP06(2023)064
Web of Science ID

WOS:001010592400006

Author(s)
Guerrieri, Andrea  
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Murali, Harish
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Penedones, Joao  
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Vieira, Pedro
Date Issued

2023-06-13

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published in
Journal of High Energy Physics
Issue

6

Start page

64

Subjects

Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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m-theory

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scattering amplitudes

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supersymmetric effective theories

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REVIEWED

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July 31, 2023
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