String scattering in flat space and a scaling limit of Yang-Mills correlators

Abstract

We use the flat space limit of the AdS/CFT correspondence to derive a simple relation between the 2 to 2 scattering amplitude of massless string states in type IIB superstring theory on ten-dimensional Minkowski space and a scaling limit of the N=4 super Yang-Mills four point functions. We conjecture that this relation holds non-perturbatively and at arbitrarily high energy.

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• Local bulk S-matrix elements and CFT singularities
• High-energy gravitational scattering and black hole resonances