Published November 16, 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Gravity with a cosmological constant from rational curves

Creators

  • 1. Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics,University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA (United Kingdom)

Description

We give a new formula for all tree-level correlators of boundary field insertions in gauged N=8 supergravity in AdS4; this is an analogue of the tree-level S-matrix in anti-de Sitter space. The formula is written in terms of rational maps from the Riemann sphere to twistor space, with no reference to bulk perturbation theory. It is polynomial in the cosmological constant, and equal to the classical scattering amplitudes of supergravity in the flat space limit. The formula is manifestly supersymmetric, independent of gauge choices on twistor space, and equivalent to expressions computed via perturbation theory at 3-point (MHV)-bar and n-point MHV. We also show that the formula factorizes and obeys BCFW recursion in twistor space.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2015)098; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/12691

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2015
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 98
ISSN
1029-8479

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Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP11(2015)098; ARXIV:1508.02554; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:12691
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)