Multipositivity Bounds for Scattering Amplitudes

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Auteurs principaux: Cheung, Clifford, Remmen, Grant N.
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author Cheung, Clifford
Remmen, Grant N.
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Remmen, Grant N.
contents Lorentz invariance, unitarity, and causality enforce powerful constraints on the theory space of physical scattering amplitudes. However, virtually all efforts in this direction have centered on the very simplest case of four-point scattering. In this work, we derive an infinite web of "multipositivity bounds" that nonlinearly constrain all tree-level higher-point scattering amplitudes under similarly minimal assumptions. Our construction rules out several deformations of the string and implies mixed-multiplicity bounds on the Wilson coefficients of planar effective field theories. Curiously, an infinite class of multipositivity bounds is exactly saturated by the amplitudes of the open string.
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spellingShingle Multipositivity Bounds for Scattering Amplitudes
Cheung, Clifford
Remmen, Grant N.
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Lorentz invariance, unitarity, and causality enforce powerful constraints on the theory space of physical scattering amplitudes. However, virtually all efforts in this direction have centered on the very simplest case of four-point scattering. In this work, we derive an infinite web of "multipositivity bounds" that nonlinearly constrain all tree-level higher-point scattering amplitudes under similarly minimal assumptions. Our construction rules out several deformations of the string and implies mixed-multiplicity bounds on the Wilson coefficients of planar effective field theories. Curiously, an infinite class of multipositivity bounds is exactly saturated by the amplitudes of the open string.
title Multipositivity Bounds for Scattering Amplitudes
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05553