Scattering of Massless Particles in Arbitrary Dimensions

作者:Cachazo, Freddy*; He, Song; Yuan, Ellis Ye
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2014, 113(17): 171601.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.171601

摘要

We present a compact formula for the complete tree-level S-matrix of pure Yang-Mills and gravity theories in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. The new formula for the scattering of n particles is given by an integral over the positions of n points on a sphere restricted to satisfy a dimension-independent set of equations. The integrand is constructed using the reduced Pfaffian of a 2n x 2n matrix, Psi, that depends on momenta and polarization vectors. In its simplest form, the gravity integrand is a reduced determinant which is the square of the Pfaffian in the Yang-Mills integrand. Gauge invariance is completely manifest as it follows from a simple property of the Pfaffian.

  • 出版日期2014-10-20