2D Kac-Moody symmetry of 4D Yang-Mills theory
Abstract
Scattering amplitudes of any four-dimensional theory with nonabelian gauge group G may be recast as two-dimensional correlation functions on the asymptotic twosphere at null in nity. The soft gluon theorem is shown, for massless theories at the semiclassical level, to be the Ward identity of a holomorphic two-dimensional G-Kac-Moody symmetry acting on these correlation functions. Holomorphic Kac-Moody current insertions are positive helicity soft gluon insertions. Furthermore, the Kac-Moody transformations are a CPT invariant subgroup of gauge transformations which act nontrivially at null in nity and comprise the four-dimensional asymptotic symmetry group.
- Authors:
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- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- President & Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1362020
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-91ER40654
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2016; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Gauge Symmetry; Scattering Amplitudes; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Citation Formats
He, Temple, Mitra, Prahar, and Strominger, Andrew. 2D Kac-Moody symmetry of 4D Yang-Mills theory. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2016)137.
He, Temple, Mitra, Prahar, & Strominger, Andrew. 2D Kac-Moody symmetry of 4D Yang-Mills theory. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2016)137
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"2D Kac-Moody symmetry of 4D Yang-Mills theory". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2016)137. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1362020.
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title = {2D Kac-Moody symmetry of 4D Yang-Mills theory},
author = {He, Temple and Mitra, Prahar and Strominger, Andrew},
abstractNote = {Scattering amplitudes of any four-dimensional theory with nonabelian gauge group G may be recast as two-dimensional correlation functions on the asymptotic twosphere at null in nity. The soft gluon theorem is shown, for massless theories at the semiclassical level, to be the Ward identity of a holomorphic two-dimensional G-Kac-Moody symmetry acting on these correlation functions. Holomorphic Kac-Moody current insertions are positive helicity soft gluon insertions. Furthermore, the Kac-Moody transformations are a CPT invariant subgroup of gauge transformations which act nontrivially at null in nity and comprise the four-dimensional asymptotic symmetry group.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP10(2016)137},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 10,
volume = 2016,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
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