Five-point partial waves, splitting constraints and hidden zeros

Abstract

We introduce a partial-wave basis for the double residues of five-point tree amplitudes involving identical external scalar particles, decomposing them into exchanges of definite spin at each internal channel. We verify this basis using massive spinor-helicity building blocks and by matching the resulting partial-wave coefficients against the tree-level five-point Veneziano amplitude at fixed mass levels. As an application, we express five-point splitting constraints -- the reduction of the five-point amplitude to products of four-point amplitudes on special kinematic loci -- as linear relations among the five-point partial-wave coefficients. At low mass levels these constraints, together with spin truncation, fix the full five-point partial-wave data in terms of the four-point coefficients and imply simple compatibility conditions; remarkably, imposing two independent splitting loci also forces the residue to vanish on their intersection, making the associated hidden zero manifest in partial-wave space. We also show that once both channels allow spin-2 exchange a genuine kernel can remain, indicating the need for additional higher-point input to achieve complete rigidity.

41 pages, 4 figures; Matches published version

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