Unraveling conformal gravity amplitudes

Abstract

Abstract Conformal supergravity amplitudes are obtained from the double-copy construction using gauge-theory amplitudes, and compared to direct calculations starting from conformal supergravity Lagrangians. We consider several different theories: minimal N=4 $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ conformal supergravity, non-minimal N=4 $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ Berkovits-Witten conformal supergravity, mass-deformed versions of these theories, as well as supersymmetry truncations thereof. Coupling the theories to a Yang-Mills sector is also considered. For all cases we give the gravity Lagrangians that the double copy implicitly generates. The two main results are: we determine a Lagrangian for the non-minimal Berkovits-Witten theory, and we uncover the double-copy prescription for the minimal N=4 $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ conformal supergravity.

Keywords

• Scattering Amplitudes
• Conformal Field Theory
• Supergravity Models