A four-dimensional conformal construction of Virasoro-Shapiro amplitudes
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| author | Wasnik, Vaibhav |
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| contents | We construct a four-dimensional conformal amplitude whose four-point structure matches the Virasoro-Shapiro form familiar from string theory. The construction uses only general principles of conformal field theory - radial quantization, scale invariance, and analyticity - and does not rely on worldsheet geometry or string degrees of freedom. The resulting object is a kinematical, first quantized amplitude defined by symmetry and consistency, providing a four-dimensional realization of stringlike analytic structure and a concrete target for amplitude bootstrap approaches. |
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| spellingShingle | A four-dimensional conformal construction of Virasoro-Shapiro amplitudes Wasnik, Vaibhav High Energy Physics - Theory We construct a four-dimensional conformal amplitude whose four-point structure matches the Virasoro-Shapiro form familiar from string theory. The construction uses only general principles of conformal field theory - radial quantization, scale invariance, and analyticity - and does not rely on worldsheet geometry or string degrees of freedom. The resulting object is a kinematical, first quantized amplitude defined by symmetry and consistency, providing a four-dimensional realization of stringlike analytic structure and a concrete target for amplitude bootstrap approaches. |
| title | A four-dimensional conformal construction of Virasoro-Shapiro amplitudes |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04642 |