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Massless S matrices for AdS3/CFT2

Sergey Frolov, Alessandro Sfondrini

2022Journal of High Energy Physics21 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

A bstract The AdS3/CFT2 correspondence features massless non-relativistic modes on the string worldsheet in lightcone gauge. We study in detail these excitations and highlight how they naturally split between chiral (left-moving) and anti-chiral (right-moving) representations. In light of this split we discuss the constraints on the two-particle worldsheet S matrix imposed by braiding and physical unitarity, parity, time-reversal, and crossing invariance. We also comment on the implication of this split in the mirror kinematics.

Topics & Concepts

WorldsheetPhysicsMassless particleUnitarityParity (physics)Mathematical physicsGauge fixingQuantum electrodynamicsClassical mechanicsString (physics)Quantum mechanicsTheoretical physicsParticle physicsGauge theoryNon-critical string theoryGauge bosonBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research