New worldsheet formulae for conformal supergravity amplitudes

Farrow, Joseph A.; Lipstein, Arthur E.

doi:10.1007/jhep07(2018)074

New worldsheet formulae for conformal supergravity amplitudes

Farrow, Joseph A.; Lipstein, Arthur E.

Authors

Joseph Farrow joseph.a.farrow@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy

Dr Arthur Lipstein arthur.lipstein@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Abstract

We use 4d ambitwistor string theory to derive new worldsheet formulae for tree-level conformal supergravity amplitudes supported on refined scattering equations. Unlike the worldsheet formulae for super-Yang-Mills or supergravity, the scattering equations for conformal supergravity are not in general refined by MHV degree. Nevertheless, we obtain a concise worldsheet formula for any number of scalars and gravitons which we lift to a manifestly supersymmetric formula using four types of vertex operators. The theory also contains states with non-plane wave boundary conditions and we show that the corresponding amplitudes can be obtained from plane-wave amplitudes by applying momentum derivatives. Such derivatives are subtle to define since the formulae are intrinsically four-dimensional and on-shell, so we develop a method for computing momentum derivatives of spinor variables.

Citation

Farrow, J. A., & Lipstein, A. E. (2018). New worldsheet formulae for conformal supergravity amplitudes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(7), Article 074. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282018%29074

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Jul 6, 2018
Online Publication Date	Jul 11, 2018
Publication Date	Jul 11, 2018
Deposit Date	Jul 11, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Jul 12, 2018
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN	1126-6708
Publisher	Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	2018
Issue	7
Article Number	074
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282018%29074

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