The Infrared Structure of Nambu-Goldstone Bosons.
2018
The construction of
effective actionsfor Nambu-
Goldstone bosons, and the nonlinear
sigma model, usually requires a target
cosetspace $G/H$. Recent progresses uncovered a new formulation using only IR data, without reference to $G/H$, by imposing the Adler's zero condition, which can be seen to originate from the
superselectionrule in the space of degenerate vacua. The IR construction imposes a nonlinear shift symmetry on the Lagrangian to enforce the correct single soft limit amid constraints of the unbroken group $H$. We present a systematic study on the consequence of the Adler's zero condition in correlators of nonlinear
sigma model, by deriving the
conserved currentand the Ward identity associated with the nonlinear shift symmetry, and demonstrate how the old-fashioned
current algebraemerges. The Ward identity leads to a new representation of on-shell amplitudes, which amounts to bootstrapping the higher point amplitudes from lower point amplitudes and adding new vertices to satisfy the Adler's condition. The IR perspective allows one to extract Feynman rules for the mysterious extended theory of biadjoint cubic scalars residing in the subleading single soft limit, which was first discovered using the Cachazo-He-Yuan representation of scattering amplitudes. In addition, we present the subleading triple soft theorem in the nonlinear
sigma modeland show that it is also controlled by on-shell amplitudes of the same extended theory as in the subleading single soft limit.
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