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

被引:13
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作者
Guerrieri, Andrea [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
Murali, Harish [2 ,5 ]
Penedones, Joao [6 ]
Vieira, Pedro [2 ,7 ]
机构
[1] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Ramat Aviv, Israel
[2] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, 31 Caroline St N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
[3] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[5] Univ Waterloo, Dept Phys & Astron, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
[6] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne EPFL, Inst Phys, Fields & String Lab, Rte Sorge,BSP 728, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[7] Univ Estadual Paulista, ICTP South Amer Inst Fundamental Res, Inst Fis Teor, Rua Dr Bento Teobaldo Ferraz 271, BR-01140070 Sao Paulo, Brazil
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 以色列科学基金会;
关键词
M-Theory; Scattering Amplitudes; Supersymmetric Effective Theories;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP06(2023)064
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
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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