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Unifying relations for scattering amplitudes

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2018)095

Keywords

Effective Field Theories; Scattering Amplitudes

Funding

  1. Sloan Research Fellowship
  2. DOE [DE-SC0010255]
  3. NSF [NSF PHY-1125915]
  4. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0010255] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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We derive new amplitudes relations revealing a hidden unity among a wide-ranging variety of theories in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. Our results rely on a set of Lorentz invariant differential operators which transmute physical tree-level scattering amplitudes into new ones. By transmuting the amplitudes of gravity coupled to a dilaton and two-form, we generate all the amplitudes of Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, Dirac-Born-Infield theory, special Galileon, nonlinear sigma model, and biadjoint scalar theory. Transmutation also relates amplitudes in string theory and its variants. As a corollary, celebrated aspects of gluon and graviton scattering like color-kinematics duality, the KLT relations, and the CHY construction are inherited traits of the transmuted amplitudes. Transmutation recasts the Adler zero as a trivial consequence of the Weinberg soft theorem and implies new subleading soft theorems for certain scalar theories.

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