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Scattering Amplitudes from Soft Theorems and Infrared Behavior

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arxiv 1807.09738 v2 pith:WZO6LNR4 submitted 2018-07-25 hep-th

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We prove that soft theorems uniquely fix scattering amplitudes in a wide range of theories, including Yang-Mills, gravity, the non-linear sigma model, Dirac-Born-Infeld, dilaton effective theories, extended theories like NLSM$\oplus \phi^3$ or BI$\oplus$YM, as well as some higher derivative corrections to these theories. We conjecture the same is true even when imposing more general soft behavior, simply by assuming the existence of soft operators, or by imposing gauge invariance/the Adler zero only up to a finite order in soft expansions. Besides reproducing known amplitudes, this analysis reveals a new higher order correction to the NLSM, and two interesting facts: the subleading theorem for the dilaton, and the subsubleading theorem for DBI follow automatically from the more leading theorems. These results provide motivation that asymptotic symmetries contain enough information to fully fix a holographic S-matrix.

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