Towards the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude in AdS5×S5

Abl, Theresa; Heslop, Paul; Lipstein, Arthur E.

doi:10.1007/jhep04(2021)237

Towards the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude in AdS5×S5

Abl, Theresa; Heslop, Paul; Lipstein, Arthur E.

Authors

Theresa Abl

Professor Paul Heslop paul.heslop@durham.ac.uk
Professor

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

Abstract

We propose a systematic procedure for obtaining all single trace 1/2-BPS correlators in N = 4 super Yang-Mills corresponding to the four-point tree-level amplitude for type IIB string theory in AdS5 × S5. The underlying idea is to compute generalised contact Witten diagrams coming from a 10d effective field theory on AdS5 × S5 whose coefficients are fixed by the flat space Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude up to ambiguities related to commutators of the 10d covariant derivatives which require additional information such as localisation. We illustrate this procedure by computing stringy corrections to the supergravity prediction for all single trace 1/2-BPS correlators up to O(α′7), and spell out a general algorithm for extending this to any order in α′.

Citation

Abl, T., Heslop, P., & Lipstein, A. E. (2021). Towards the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude in AdS5×S5. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(4), Article 237. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282021%29237

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Mar 29, 2021
Online Publication Date	Apr 26, 2021
Publication Date	2021
Deposit Date	May 5, 2021
Publicly Available Date	May 6, 2021
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN	1126-6708
Publisher	Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	2021
Issue	4
Article Number	237
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282021%29237

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