Weak chaos and mixed dynamics in the string S-matrix

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Main Authors: Savić, Nikola, Čubrović, Mihailo
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author Savić, Nikola
Čubrović, Mihailo
author_facet Savić, Nikola
Čubrović, Mihailo
contents We investigate chaotic dynamics in tree-level S-matrices describing the scattering of tachyons, photons and gravitons on highly excited open and closed bosonic strings, motivated by the string/black hole complementarity. The eigenphase spacing distribution and other indicators of quantum chaotic scattering suggest that the dynamics is only weakly chaotic, consisting of both regular/Poisson and chaotic/Wigner-Dyson processes. Only for special values of momenta and (for photon scattering) scattering angles do we find strong chaos of random matrix type. These special values correspond to a crossover between two regimes of scattering, dominated by short versus long partitions of the total occupation number of the highly excited string; they also maximize the information entropy of the S-matrix. The lack of strong chaos suggests that perturbative dynamics of highly excited strings can never describe the universal properties and maximal chaos of black hole horizons.
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spellingShingle Weak chaos and mixed dynamics in the string S-matrix
Savić, Nikola
Čubrović, Mihailo
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Chaotic Dynamics
We investigate chaotic dynamics in tree-level S-matrices describing the scattering of tachyons, photons and gravitons on highly excited open and closed bosonic strings, motivated by the string/black hole complementarity. The eigenphase spacing distribution and other indicators of quantum chaotic scattering suggest that the dynamics is only weakly chaotic, consisting of both regular/Poisson and chaotic/Wigner-Dyson processes. Only for special values of momenta and (for photon scattering) scattering angles do we find strong chaos of random matrix type. These special values correspond to a crossover between two regimes of scattering, dominated by short versus long partitions of the total occupation number of the highly excited string; they also maximize the information entropy of the S-matrix. The lack of strong chaos suggests that perturbative dynamics of highly excited strings can never describe the universal properties and maximal chaos of black hole horizons.
title Weak chaos and mixed dynamics in the string S-matrix
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Chaotic Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02211