Tuesday, June 11, 2013

1306.1844 (Stephan Stieberger et al.)

Superstring/Supergravity Mellin Correspondence in Grassmannian
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Stephan Stieberger, Tomasz R. Taylor
We extend the recently established Mellin correspondence of supergravity and superstring amplitudes to the case of arbitrary helicity configurations. The amplitudes are discussed in the framework of Grassmannian varieties. We generalize Hodges' determinant to a function of two sets of independent coordinates and show that tree-level supergravity amplitudes can be obtained by contour integrations of both sets in separate Grassmannians while in superstring theory, one set of coordinates is identified with string vertex positions at the disk boundary and Mellin transformed into generalized hypergeometric functions of Mandelstam invariants.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1844

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