String amplitudes from QFT amplitudes and vice versa

Author: Song He, Fei Teng and Yong Zhang

Preprint number: UUITP-58/18

We present an integration-by-part reduction of any massless tree-level string correlator to an equivalence class of "logarithmic functions" which can be used to define a field-theory amplitude via a Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY) formula. The string amplitude is then shown to be the double copy of the field theory one and a special disk/sphere integral. The construction is generic as it applies to any correlator that is a rational function of correct SL(2) weight. By applying the reduction to open bosonic/heterotic strings, we get a closed-form CHY integrand for the DF2+YM+ϕ3 theory.

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