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The B-field soft theorem and its unification with the graviton and dilaton
Stockholm University, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita). University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Number of Authors: 32017 (English)In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), ISSN 1126-6708, E-ISSN 1029-8479, no 10, article id 017Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In theories of Einstein gravity coupled with a dilaton and a two-form, a soft theorem for the two-form, known as the Kalb-Ramond B-field, has so far been missing. In this work we fill the gap, and in turn formulate a unified soft theorem valid for gravitons, dilatons and B-fields in any tree-level scattering amplitude involving the three massless states. The new soft theorem is fixed by means of on-shell gauge invariance and enters at the subleading order of the graviton's soft theorem. In contrast to the subsubleading soft behavior of gravitons and dilatons, we show that the soft behavior of B-fields at this order cannot be fully fixed by gauge invariance. Nevertheless, we show that it is possible to establish a gauge invariant decomposition of the amplitudes to any order in the soft expansion. We check explicitly the new soft theorem in the bosonic string and in Type II superstring theories, and furthermore demonstrate that, at the next order in the soft expansion, totally gauge invariant terms appear in both string theories which cannot be factorized into a soft theorem.

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2017. no 10, article id 017
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Bosonic Strings, Scattering Amplitudes, Superstrings and Heterotic Strings
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148934DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2017)017ISI: 000412350200007OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-148934DiVA, id: diva2:1156805
Available from: 2017-11-14 Created: 2017-11-14 Last updated: 2022-03-23Bibliographically approved

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