Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. The stringy S-matrix bootstrap: maximal spin and superpolynomial softness
 
research article

The stringy S-matrix bootstrap: maximal spin and superpolynomial softness

Haering, Kelian  
•
Zhiboedov, Alexander
October 9, 2024
Journal of High Energy Physics

We explore the space of meromorphic amplitudes with extra constraints coming from the shape of the leading Regge trajectory. This information comes in two guises: it bounds the maximal spin of exchanged particles of a given mass; it leads to sum rules obeyed by the discontinuity of the amplitude, which express the softness of scattering at high energies. We assume that the leading Regge trajectory is linear, and we derive bounds on the low-energy Wilson coefficients using the dual and primal approaches. For the graviton-graviton scattering in four dimensions, the maximal spin constraint leads to slightly more stringent bounds than those that follow from general constraints of analyticity, crossing, and unitarity. The exponential softness at high energies is manifest in our primal approach and is not used in our implementation of the dual approach. Nevertheless, we observe the agreement between the bounds obtained from both. We conclude that high-energy superpolynomial softness does not leave an obvious imprint on the low-energy observables. We exhibit a unitary three-parameter deformation of the Veneziano amplitude for the open string case. It has a novel, exponentially soft behavior at high energies and fixed angles. We generalize the previous analysis of this regime and present a stringy version of the lower bound on high-energy, fixed-angle scattering by Cerulus and Martin.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.1007/JHEP10(2024)075
Web of Science ID

WOS:001336871600002

Author(s)
Haering, Kelian  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Zhiboedov, Alexander

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Date Issued

2024-10-09

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published in
Journal of High Energy Physics
Issue

10

Article Number

75

Subjects

Scattering Amplitudes

•

Effective Field Theories

•

Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
FSL  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

European Research Council (ERC)

949077

Simons Foundation

488649

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

200020 197160

Show more
Available on Infoscience
January 28, 2025
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/245775
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés