Complete Construction of Magical, Symmetric, and Homogeneous N=2 Supergravities as Double Copies of Gauge Theories

M. Chiodaroli, M. Günaydin, H. Johansson, R. Roiban

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Abstract

We show that scattering amplitudes in magical, symmetric or homogeneous N=2 Maxwell-Einstein supergravities can be obtained as double copies of two gauge theories, using the framework of color-kinematics duality. The left-hand copy is N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory coupled to a hypermultiplet, whereas the right-hand copy is a nonsupersymmetric theory that can be identified as the dimensional reduction of a D-dimensional Yang-Mills theory coupled to P fermions. For generic D and P, the double copy gives homogeneous supergravities. For P=1 and D=7, 8, 10, 14, it gives the magical supergravities. We compute explicit amplitudes, discuss their soft limits, and study the UV behavior at one loop.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number011603
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume117
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 30 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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