most citedStrings from Almost Nothing

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hep-th20263 cited

Strings from Almost Nothing

Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen, Francesco Sciotti +1

We argue that string theory emerges inevitably from a few simple assumptions about physical scattering. Consistency alone requires that all tree-level four-point scattering amplitu…

hep-th2026

Multipositivity Constrains the Chiral Lagrangian

Clifford Cheung, Jaehoon Jeong, Pyungwon Ko +3

The chiral Lagrangian is a cornerstone of modern particle physics, offering a systematic and quantitative description of low-energy pions. Using tools from the modern scattering am…

hep-th2026

The Equivalence Principle at High Energies Completes the Spectrum

Francesco Calisto, Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen +2

We prove a version of the completeness hypothesis that follows from the coexistence of symmetry and gravity: tree-level gravitational scattering mandates single-particle states in…

hep-th2026

Completeness from Gravitational Scattering

Francesco Calisto, Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen +2

We prove that symmetry in the presence of gravity implies a version of the completeness hypothesis. For a broad class of theories, we demonstrate that the existence of finitely man…

hep-th2026

Inverse Problem in Effective Field Theory

Francesco Calisto, Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen +2

We show that the tree-level spectrum of heavy particles can be directly extracted from the Wilson coefficients of the corresponding effective field theory at low energies. This pro…

hep-th2025

Bootstrap Principle for the Spectrum and Scattering of Strings

Clifford Cheung, Aaron Hillman, Grant N. Remmen

We show that the Veneziano amplitude of string theory is the unique solution to an analytically solvable bootstrap problem. Uniqueness follows from two assumptions: faster than pow…