articlePhysical Review LettersOct 20, 2014GREEN OA

Scattering of Massless Particles in Arbitrary Dimensions

Perimeter Institute · Institute for Advanced Study · +1 more institution

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Abstract

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×2n matrix, Ψ, 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.

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Keywords
  • Pfaffian
  • Physics
  • Massless particle
  • Mathematical physics
  • Matrix (chemical analysis)
  • Scattering
  • Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
  • S-matrix
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