The non-relativistic rapidity substitution conjecture for massless AdS/CFT R-matrices

Let pp be the momentum of a massless mode and define the non-relativistic rapidity

γlogtanp4.\gamma \equiv \log \tan \frac{p}{4}.

For relativistic massless scattering, let θ\theta denote the rapidity difference, and let right-right and left-left modes refer to scattering states of the corresponding chiralities. Non-relativistic rapidity substitution conjecture. In AdS/CFT, every massless non-relativistic R-matrix governing the scattering of right-right or left-left modes is obtained from the massless relativistic one by the substitution

θγ.\theta \longrightarrow \gamma.

Equivalently, for two particles one replaces θ=θ1θ2\theta=\theta_1-\theta_2 by γ=γ1γ2\gamma=\gamma_1-\gamma_2, with

γ=logtanp14logtanp24.\gamma=\log \tan \frac{p_1}{4}-\log \tan \frac{p_2}{4}.

The conjecture expresses a simple relation between relativistic and non-relativistic massless scattering matrices and is supported in the examples discussed, including undeformed AdS2×S2×T6AdS_2\times S^2\times T^6 and AdS3×S3×T4AdS_3\times S^3\times T^4, but its extension to more general AdS/CFT backgrounds remains to be established.

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Andrea Fontanella and Alessandro Torrielli, “Geometry of Massless Scattering in Integrable Superstring”, arXiv:1903.10759 (2019).

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