Amplitudes on plane waves from ambitwistor strings

作者:Adamo Tim; Casali Eduardo; Mason Lionel; Nekovar Stefan
来源:The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017, 2017(11): 160.
DOI:10.1007/JHEP11(2017)160

摘要

In marked contrast to conventional string theory, ambitwistor strings remain solvable worldsheet theories when coupled to curved background fields. We use this fact to consider the quantization of ambitwistor strings on plane wave metric and plane wave gauge field backgrounds. In each case, the worldsheet model is anomaly free as a consequence of the background satisfying the field equations. We derive vertex operators (in both fixed and descended picture numbers) for gravitons and gluons on these backgrounds from the worldsheet CFT, and study the 3-point functions of these vertex operators on the Riemann sphere. These worldsheet correlation functions reproduce the known results for 3-point scattering amplitudes of gravitons and gluons in gravitational and gauge theoretic plane wave backgrounds, respectively.

  • 出版日期2017-11-24
  • 单位中国科学院理论物理研究所