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Title: Symmetry for Flavor-Kinematics Duality from an Action

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new representation of the nonlinear sigma model that exhibits a manifest duality between flavor and kinematics. The fields couple exclusively through cubic Feynman vertices which define the structure constants of an underlying kinematic algebra. The action is invariant under a combination of internal and spacetime symmetries whose conservation equations imply flavor-kinematics duality, ensuring that all Feynman diagrams satisfy kinematic Jacobi identities. Substituting flavor for kinematics, we derive a new cubic action for the special Galileon theory. Finally, in this picture, the vanishing soft behavior of amplitudes is a by-product of the Weinberg soft theorem.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]
  1. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Walter Burke Inst. for Theoretical Physics
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Research Org.:
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1424592
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1348051
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0010255
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; dualities in field theory; effective field theory; Feynman diagrams; nonlinear sigma model; scattering amplitudes; symmetries

Citation Formats

Cheung, Clifford, and Shen, Chia-Hsien. Symmetry for Flavor-Kinematics Duality from an Action. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121601.
Cheung, Clifford, & Shen, Chia-Hsien. Symmetry for Flavor-Kinematics Duality from an Action. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121601
Cheung, Clifford, and Shen, Chia-Hsien. Thu . "Symmetry for Flavor-Kinematics Duality from an Action". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121601. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1424592.
@article{osti_1424592,
title = {Symmetry for Flavor-Kinematics Duality from an Action},
author = {Cheung, Clifford and Shen, Chia-Hsien},
abstractNote = {In this paper, we propose a new representation of the nonlinear sigma model that exhibits a manifest duality between flavor and kinematics. The fields couple exclusively through cubic Feynman vertices which define the structure constants of an underlying kinematic algebra. The action is invariant under a combination of internal and spacetime symmetries whose conservation equations imply flavor-kinematics duality, ensuring that all Feynman diagrams satisfy kinematic Jacobi identities. Substituting flavor for kinematics, we derive a new cubic action for the special Galileon theory. Finally, in this picture, the vanishing soft behavior of amplitudes is a by-product of the Weinberg soft theorem.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121601},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 12,
volume = 118,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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