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Where Is String Theory in the Space of Scattering Amplitudes?

Guerrieri, Andrea
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Penedones, Joao  
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Vieira, Pedro
August 18, 2021
Physical Review Letters

We use the S-matrix bootstrap to carve out the space of unitary, crossing symmetric and supersymmetric graviton scattering amplitudes in ten dimensions. We focus on the leading Wilson coefficient a controlling the leading correction to maximal supergravity. The negative region alpha < 0 is excluded by a simple dual argument based on linearized unitarity (the desert). Awhole semi-infinite region alpha greater than or similar to 0.14 is allowed by the primal bootstrap (the garden). A finite intermediate region is excluded by nonperturbative unitarity (the swamp). Remarkably, string theory seems to cover all (or at least almost all) the garden from very large positive a-at weak coupling-to the swamp boundary-at strong coupling.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.081601
Web of Science ID

WOS:000686914500003

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

2021-08-18

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

127

Issue

8

Article Number

081601

Subjects

Physics, Multidisciplinary

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Physics

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