Deformations of Yang-Mills theory
arXiv:1501.00848 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.065012
Abstract
We introduce and study a new class of power-counting non-renormalisable gauge theories in four space-time dimensions. The Lagrangian is an arbitrary function of the self-dual part of the field strength. The resulting perturbation theory has the property that whenever two derivatives act on an internal line propagator, the result is a delta-function and the line collapses to a point. This means that there remains at most one derivative on each internal line, which gives improved ulta-violet behaviour. For many purposes, this class of theories behaves just like ordinary Yang-Mills theory. In particular, they all share the Yang-Mills theory MHV amplitudes. Moreover, these theories remain constructible in the sense that higher-point tree level scattering amplitudes can be obtained from the lower-point amplitudes using the BCFW recursion relations. Also, the square of these gauge-theory amplitudes gives the scattering amplitudes of "deformations" of General Relativity, at least for the low particle numbers that we checked. We compute the one-loop beta-function of the first new coupling constant, and find it to be positive, which signals the associated non-renormalisable interaction becoming important in the ulta-violet.
v2: 38 pages, many figures, references added; v3: Typos corrected, version accepted for publication in PRD
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