Little string amplitudes (and the unreasonable effectiveness of 6D SYM)
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Chang, Chi-Ming
Lin, Ying-Hsuan
Shao, Shu-Heng
Wang, Yifan
Yin, Xi
Date Issued
December 2014
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Chang, Chi-Ming, Ying-Hsuan Lin, Shu-Heng Shao, Yifan Wang, and Xi Yin. “Little String Amplitudes (and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of 6D SYM).” J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, no. 12 (December 2014).
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We study tree level scattering amplitudes of four massless states in the double scaled little string theory, and compare them to perturbative loop amplitudes in six-dimensional super-Yang-Mills theory. The little string amplitudes are computed from correlators in the cigar coset CFT and in N = 2 minimal models. The results are expressed in terms of integrals of conformal blocks and evaluated numerically in the α ′ expansion. We find striking agreements with up to 2-loop scattering amplitudes of massless gluons in 6D SU(k) SYM at a ℤ [subscript k] invariant point on the Coulomb branch. We comment on the issue of UV divergence at higher loop orders in the gauge theory and discuss the implication of our results.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2014)176
