nLab KLT relations

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Context

Quantum Field Theory

algebraic quantum field theory (perturbative, on curved spacetimes, homotopical)

Introduction

Concepts

field theory:

Lagrangian field theory

quantization

quantum mechanical system, quantum probability

free field quantization

gauge theories

interacting field quantization

renormalization

Theorems

States and observables

Operator algebra

Local QFT

Perturbative QFT

Duality in string theory

Contents

Idea

In perturbative quantum field theory the KLT relations (Kawai-Lewellen-Tye 86) express tree level scattering amplitudes in (super-)gravity equivalently as squares of scattering amplitudes in (super-)Yang-Mills theory.

These relations are manifest in perturbative string theory-UV-completions of Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, where they were originally found and from which the QFT relations have been deduced: in string theory the graviton is an excitation of the closed string and the gluon of the open string. But cylinder-shaped worldvolume may be read in two different ways: either as a closed string propagator or as an open string vacuum diagram. This open/closed string duality of string scattering amplitudes yields the KLT relations.

Moreover, a color-kinematics duality suggest that these relations extend from tree level to all loop order.

Its classical field theory counterpart is named classical double copy.

References

KLT Relations

The original article is

See also

As an isomorphism of Lie algebras:

  • Hadleigh Frost, The Algebraic Structure of the KLT Relations for Gauge and Gravity Tree Amplitudes, SIGMA 17 101 (2021) (arXiv:2111.07257)

Gravity amplitudes as double copy Yang-Mills amplitudes

The extension of the KLT relation beyond tree level to “quantum gravity is Yang-Mills squared” (“double copy” approach) originates with

and is further discussed in

Discussion in terms of superstring scattering amplitudes is in

Application to computation of (classical) gravitational wave-signatures from relativistic binary-mergers for used at LIGO:

  • Zvi Bern, Clifford Cheung, Radu Roiban, Chia-Hsien Shen, Mikhail P. Solon, Mao Zeng, Scattering Amplitudes and the Conservative Hamiltonian for Binary Systems at Third Post-Minkowskian Order, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 201603 (2019) (arXiv:1901.04424)

Review:

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