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Higher-spin Yang–Mills, amplitudes and self-duality
Adamo, Tim; Tran, Vuong
2023In Letters in Mathematical Physics, 113 (3)
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Keywords :
Mathematical Physics; Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Abstract :
[en] AbstractThe existence of interacting higher-spin theories is tightly constrained by many no-go theorems. In this paper, we construct a chiral, higher-spin generalization of Yang–Mills theory in flat space which avoids these no-go theorems and has non-trivial tree-level scattering amplitudes with some higher-spin external legs. The fields and action are complex, so the theory is non-unitary and parity-violating, yet we find surprisingly compact formulae for all-multiplicity tree-level scattering amplitudes in the maximal helicity violating (MHV) sector, where the two negative helicity particles have identical but arbitrary spin. This is possible because the theory admits a perturbative expansion around its self-dual sector. Using twistor theory, we prove the classical integrability of this self-dual sector and show that it can be described on spacetime by an infinite tower of interacting massless scalar fields. We also give a twistor construction of the full theory and use it to derive the formula for the MHV amplitude.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Adamo, Tim 
Tran, Vuong ;  Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté des Sciences > Service de Physique de l'Univers, Champs et Gravitation
Language :
English
Title :
Higher-spin Yang–Mills, amplitudes and self-duality
Publication date :
28 April 2023
Journal title :
Letters in Mathematical Physics
ISSN :
0377-9017
eISSN :
1573-0530
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume :
113
Issue :
3
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Research unit :
S827 - Physique de l'Univers, Champs et Gravitation
Research institute :
R150 - Institut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Complexes
Funders :
Royal Society
Leverhulme Trust
HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council
Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
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