Scattering of Massless Particles in Arbitrary Dimensions

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作者
Cachazo, Freddy [1 ]
He, Song [1 ,2 ]
Yuan, Ellis Ye [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
[2] Inst Adv Study, Sch Nat Sci, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
[3] Univ Waterloo, Dept Phys & Astron, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
关键词
STRING THEORY; AMPLITUDE;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.171601
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present a compact formula for the complete tree-level S-matrix of pure Yang-Mills and gravity theories in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. The new formula for the scattering of n particles is given by an integral over the positions of n points on a sphere restricted to satisfy a dimension-independent set of equations. The integrand is constructed using the reduced Pfaffian of a 2n x 2n matrix, Psi, that depends on momenta and polarization vectors. In its simplest form, the gravity integrand is a reduced determinant which is the square of the Pfaffian in the Yang-Mills integrand. Gauge invariance is completely manifest as it follows from a simple property of the Pfaffian.
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