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String Theory from Maximal Supersymmetry

Aidan Herderschee, Henriette Elvang, Roger Morales

Maximal supersymmetry combined with positivity forces the tree-level amplitudes in planar N=4 EFTs to match the open string Veneziano amplitude.

arxiv:2601.11705 v2 · 2026-01-16 · hep-th

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C1strongest claim

Our results strongly suggest that supersymmetry, R-symmetry, and positivity are sufficient to single out this unique UV completion at tree level.

C2weakest assumption

The requirement of standard tree-level factorization on the massless poles of the 4-, 5-, and 6-point EFT scattering amplitudes in the weakly-coupled regime, together with the assumption that the theories are non-gravitational and planar.

C3one line summary

Supersymmetry, R-symmetry, and positivity constrain planar 4d EFTs to match the open string Veneziano amplitude at tree level.

References

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[1] Vafa,The String landscape and the swampland, [arXiv:hep-th/0509212 [hep-th]] · arXiv:hep-th/0509212

[2] On the Geometry of the String Landscape and the Swampland 2007 · arXiv:hep-th/0605264

[3] The String Landscape, Black Holes and Gravity as the Weakest Force 2007 · arXiv:hep-th/0601001

[4] Causality, Analyticity and an IR Obstruction to UV Completion 2006 · arXiv:hep-th/0602178

[5] N. Arkani-Hamed, T.-C. Huang and Y.-t. Huang,The EFT-Hedron,JHEP05(2021) 259 [2012.15849] 2021

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:39:00.213508Z
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arxiv: 2601.11705 · arxiv_version: 2601.11705v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.11705 · pith_short_12: ZD5FKTAC25WZ · pith_short_16: ZD5FKTAC25WZ44JQ · pith_short_8: ZD5FKTAC

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