Dual resonant amplitudes from Drinfel'd twists

Abstract

We postulate the existence of a family of dual resonant, four-point tachyon amplitudes derived using invertible coproduct maps called Drinfel'd twists. A sub-family of these amplitudes exhibits well-defined ultraviolet behaviour, namely in the fixed angle high-energy and Regge scattering regimes. This discovery emerges from a systematic study of the set of observables that can be constructed out of $q$-deformed worldsheet CFTs with the underlying conformal group being the quantum group $SU(1,1{)}_q$. We conclude our analysis by discussing the possibility (or the lack thereof) of known $q$-deformations of the Veneziano amplitude as an observable in such theories, in particular, the Coon amplitude.

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